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Testing Canada-Mexico ties

Free trade between Canada and Mexico is in part an accident of history: two nations, each the other’s afterthought, came together in their shared race to capitalize on the US market. Now, after President Donald Trump threatened to leave the North American Free Trade Agreement, the pact’s junior partners are working more closely than ever to save it. Trump has ...

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How the H-1B program fares under Trump…

Despite President Donald Trump’s frequent and public criticism of the H-1B visa program, new data released shows applicants are undeterred. The US government has received more than 300,000 H-1B visa petitions and extensions so far this year, according to data released last Wednesday by US Citizenship and Immigration Services, compared with a total of 399,349 in all of 2016. A ...

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Can emerging-market discount whet the appetite?

When investors sense that consumer behavior in emerging markets is changing, they tend to shoot first and ask questions later, potentially missing opportunities. It’s well known that such stocks trade at a discount. The MSCI World With EM Exposure Index, which tracks developed-world shares that rely on emerging markets for revenue, was valued at 16.4 times forward earnings at the ...

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