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Trudeau to host Obama, Mexican President for NAFTA summit

  Ottawa, Canada / AFP Canada, Mexico and the United States will look to dovetail their climate and other policies into a continental strategy when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hosts Barack Obama and Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday. But Britain’s shocking vote to quit the European Union has also abruptly shoved itself onto the agenda of the summit, which the countries ...

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Brexit impact hangs on policy makers’ next move, says Lagarde

  Bloomberg International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said that the fallout from Britain’s vote to leave the European Union hinges on what policy makers do in coming days. Much of the outcome “is going to depend on certainty or uncertainty, predictability or lack of predictability — people going in a risk-off mode or considering that the situation is ...

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Oil trades near $48 a barrel as UK vote spurs market volatility

  Bloomberg Oil traded near $48 a barrel as the market remained volatile after the U.K. last week voted to leave the EU. Futures rose as much as 0.7 percent after declining 1.5 percent earlier in New York, following Friday’s 4.9 percent slump, the biggest drop in four months. The turmoil in financial markets continued on Monday with the pound ...

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