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The Canadian dollar has posted gains on Monday session, continuing the upward trend which marked the Friday. USD/CAD is trading at 1.2860. The Canadian dollar posted strong gains on Friday, which was somewhat surprising as Canadian markets were closed for Canada Day. US markets are closed on Monday for Independence Day, so there are no scheduled US events. Canada will publish Manufacturing PMI and the BoC Business Outlook Survey. With the financial markets understandably focused on the stunning Brexit vote, the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy has shifted to the back-burner. That could change later this week, with the release of...

'It's like being stuck in a river getting whisked over a waterfall' ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- On the surface, Jennifer Wilbanks was a happy bride-to-be who showed no sign to friends or family that she wanted to call off her extravagant wedding. But underneath, as she would later tell police after running away to New Mexico, Wilbanks was scared and not sure she wanted to go through with her big day. Marriage counselors say Wilbanks' actions are an extreme but understandable reaction to the stress of the wedding and the fear of disappointing others by backing out. "Sometimes it's like...

TAMPA - Two weekends ago, someone broke into a Volusia County water treatment plant. No one can say who or why or even exactly when the intrusion took place. But whoever it was had access to more than 500,000 gallons of purified drinking water, and that was enough to persuade state officials to pull the plug on 15,000 water customers. The water has been tested and given a clean bill of health. But the fact that Volusia water managers waited more than 30 hours to report the break-in has prompted the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to issue an emergency...

Iraq Assails 'Little Bush,' Markets Jittery Reuters to My Yahoo! By Hassan Hafidh BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq blasted on Monday what it called the mad campaign of "little Bush," the U.S. president threatening to go to war if Baghdad fails to give up alleged weapons of mass destruction. War jitters worldwide pushed up the price of oil and gold. Around Baghdad, U.N. experts looking for weapons visited three sites while Iraq said it would soon receive a first batch of Arab and European volunteers ready to act as human shields to try to stave off a U.S. attack. "The administration...