Retail sales rose 0.7% in January to $35.7 billion. Stores selling home improvement products were large contributors to the gain in January, the final month of the federal government's Home Renovation Tax Credit.
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Foreign investment in Canadian securities continued to increase, reaching $11.8 billion in January, with debt instruments continuing to attract the bulk of the inflow of funds.
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Canadian residents made 4.2 million trips outside of the country in January, down 1.5% from the previous month. Trips to both the United States and overseas destinations decreased compared with December.
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Wholesale sales in current dollars rose 3.0% in January to $44.4 billion, the strongest increase in three years. Canadian wholesale sales have maintained an upward trend since mid-2009.
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Virgin Islands owned, Kiribati-flagged, 22, 294 tonnes chemical tanker MV Theresa VIII, which had originally a crew of 29 seamen, has been released from the Central Somali coast near Harardheere - after a substantial ransom payment.
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The market value of employer-sponsored pension funds amounted to $898.1 billion at the end of the third quarter, up 6.3% or $53.4 billion from the previous quarter.
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The labour productivity of Canadian businesses grew 1.4% in the fourth quarter, the first increase since the third quarter of 2008. This marks the highest quarterly growth rate since the first quarter of 1998.
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Manufacturing sales rose 2.4% in January to $44.6 billion. With this gain, sales have advanced for five consecutive months.
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According to Basque radio station Radio Euskadi, the crew on the Basque FV Txori-Argi managed to avoid the attempted abduction at around 10h00 on Sunday, March 14, 2010. There was a shooting but no one was injured.
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Canada's net foreign debt increased by $23.4 billion to $109.5 billion at the end of the fourth quarter of 2009, reflecting an ongoing current account deficit as well as the revaluation effect of the appreciation of the Canadian dollar.
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