India’s economic growth seen slowing during Modi’s run for re-election By Reuters | Galvanized Round/Square Mild Steel Pipe

4 – Residents of Churchill cheered the arrival of the first passenger train in the community since the spring of 2017. The only land link to the northern Manitoba community had been suspended since flooding damaged the tracks. Repairs were made after a consortium including several northern communities purchased the Hudson Bay Railway from its American owners with support from the federal government. VIA Rail trains were to leave from Winnipeg to Churchill twice a week.

If you want to talk about inflation, you need to also consider the greatest producer of inflation: monopolies.  I know you think that globalization will result in cheaper products, but currency manipulation destroys competition, and this results in monopolies.  Nothing creates inflation faster than the monopoly.  After all, look at what the Chinese did to the price of tungsten back in 2004 once they captured a monopoly on it...ouch!  The cost was $8,700 per metric ton in 2003, $37,000 by 2005, and $56,700 by 2012.   Talk about inflation!  Now imagine they are allowed to do that with the entire economy?  They will, of course, if they are allowed to.  Remember, it is not globalization that drives down prices, but competition.

A study commissioned by the Steel Alliance against Counterfeiting (SAAC) has revealed that more than half the industry – 53...

“We pride ourselves on supplying and manufacturing a range of solutions that encompass all typical structural components found in new high-end homes, housing complexes, commercial buildings, and factories, for example. All of our products are customised to suit specific customer requirements,” Fabcon Steel Director Andrew van Gool comments, an industry veteran with 20 years’ experience.

Less obvious details, such as shipping braces, insulation details, clearances, tolerances and expansion joints, also need to be considered.

26 – General Motors announced it would close five facilities in North America, including its production plant in Oshawa, Ont., as part of a global reorganization that would see the company focus on electric and autonomous vehicle programs. The automaker said the plan would save the company US$6 billion by 2020. The closure in Oshawa, planned for the end of 2019, would affect approximately 2,500 jobs.

Samchai Steel Industries Public Company Limited makes and sells steel pipes and tubes to the construction and furniture industries in Thailand and internationally. The company has market cap of $491.21 million. The firm provides structural steel pipes, galvanized steel pipes, furniture pipes, and hot rolled steel plates and sheets under the SAMCHAI trademark. It currently has negative earnings. Samchai Steel Industries Public Company Limited also offers car repairing services.

12 – Simona Halep defeated third-seeded Sloane Stephens in a see-saw battle that featured 15 service breaks to win the Rogers Cup women’s singles final in Montreal. It was the second Rogers Cup title for the world’s top-ranked women’s player.

8 – The deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century swept through the northern California community of Paradise, about 290 kilometres north of San Francisco. Tens of thousands of people scrambled to flee the fire, which destroyed nearly 14,000 homes and killed 85 people. Several lawsuits had been filed against Pacific Gas and & Electric Co. by the end of November, alleging it could have prevented the fire. The cause remained under investigation but the utility had reported an outage on a transmission line near the time and place where the fire began.

2 – A 60-year-old German tourist was shot in the head while driving with his family on a highway near Morley in southwestern Alberta.

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Initial attempts to reach Rives for comment were unsuccessful. In an email exchange with The Dispatch he agreed to be interviewed at noon Friday. He could not be reached by telephone Friday.