Reuters The average price of farmland in Canada, the world’s largest canola grower and one of the biggest wheat exporters, will rise at a slower pace in 2016 amid a downturn in commodity prices. Growers should prepare for a “possible easing” of farmland values after prices in many key regions rose at a slower rate in 2015, Farm Credit Canada, …

Reuters Brazil’s BM&FBovespa SA is arranging loan financing to fund its 12.9 billion reais ($3.6 billion) takeover of rival Cetip SA Mercados Organizados as both companies agreed to form a giant financial exchange with a presence from Mexico to Chile. BM&FBovespa Chief Executive Officer Edemir Pinto, who will run the combined entity, declined to elaborate on the loan. Shares of …

Khang Vu SPECIAL TO EMIRATES BUSINESS As the race to the White House is heating up, Asian countries are paying close attention to the candidates’ foreign policy platforms. For the last few weeks, international headlines have focused on Donald Trump’s vision of a nuclearized Northeast Asia and his proposal to withdraw U.S. troops from South Korea and Japan if the …