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Agriculture commodity groups are applauding the Liberal government’s long-awaited Indo-Pacific strategy, announced Sunday in Vancouver, and hoping it will lead to more, and better, free trade deals with countries like India.
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Canadian agriculture groups hope new Indo-Pacific strategy leads to trade deals

Billionaire Elon Musk said in a tweet on Monday that Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter.
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Musk says Apple mostly stopped advertising on Twitter

Early data for Black Friday suggest a mixed bag for online sales as inflation hits shoppers ahead of the holiday season.
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Early data points to mixed Black Friday online as inflation hits shoppers

Cryptocurrency lender BlockFi is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the fallout from the collapse of crypto exchange FTX spreads outward.
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BlockFi files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

Russian energy giant Gazprom announced Monday that it will not further reduce natural gas to Moldova as it had threatened to do after claiming that bills went unpaid and that flows crossing through Ukraine were not making it to Moldova.
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Russian energy giant says no further gas cuts to Moldova

Shares of Apple Inc. fell about 2% on Monday as growing unrest at a key Chinese plant fanned worries of a bigger hit to the already constrained production of higher-end iPhone 14 models.
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Apple shares slip as China factory unrest may further hit iPhone shipments

The CEO of Barclays said Monday that he has been diagnosed with cancer.
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Barclays CEO says he has cancer but will continue to run the bank

Shopify Inc. says sales by merchants on its system set a new record for Black Friday as they rose 17 per cent compared with a year ago.
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Shopify says merchant sales set Black Friday record at US.36 billion

Canada’s main stock index was down about 100 points in late-morning, weighed down by losses in the energy, base metal and utility sectors, while U.S. stock markets also retreated.
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S&P/TSX composite down in late-morning trading, U.S. stocks also lower

Sunday officially marks one month since the world’s richest man took the helm at Twitter. The billionaire has seemingly left no stone unturned during his whirlwind first month as ‘Chief Twit.’ Here is a look at the range of ways Musk has already left his mark on one of the world’s most influential social media platforms.
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Layoffs, ultimatums, and an ongoing saga over blue check marks: Elon Musk’s first month at Twitter