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CBC News reported that US President Barack Obama has rejected TransCanada’s (TSX:TRP, NYSE:TRP) application to build the Keystone XL pipeline after a seven years saga.

The conventional wisdom is that Republican primary voters are having a little fun now with their support of oddball outsider candidates like Donald Trump and Ben Carson, but that when it comes time to start voting they’ll shift towards a more “electable candidate”.

If that’s your mindset about this Saturday’s matchup in Norman, a word of caution.is in order.

In one, Trump calls Ben Carson a “complete and total loser”.

If someone will get the best of that matchup in Florida’s homecoming game Saturday, Hargreaves would be the better bet.

The libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute think-tank obtained the document with Hillary’s signature, which the State Department declassified on Thursday, and gave it to the conservative Washington Free Beacon.

The Federal Open Market Committee is scheduled to meet December 15-16 to discuss whether the economy is stable enough to handle higher interest rates. “The main driver behind the down move is that more market participants now believe that the Fed will begin raising rates...

A further delay or outright rejection of the TransCanada Keystone XL project risks a looming capacity crunch on Western Canada’s pipeline network, causing more pain for producers already struggling with weak global crude prices.

“Look, we are five percent of the world’s population, we have to build things and sell things to the 95 percent, so people who are against trade under any circumstances no matter what are kind of missing the point”, Clinton said.

“President Obama today demonstrated that he cares more about kowtowing to green-collar elitists than he does about creating desperately needed, family-supporting, blue-collar jobs”, O’Sullivan said in a statement Friday.

The GOP debate last week gave the Rubio campaign new life in New Hampshire.

If it’s Clinton versus Jeb Bush, Clinton would have 47 percent versus Bush’s 43 percent.

The TPP offers one of the most comprehensive approaches to trade agreements to date, although strong opposition continues to plague it. The agreement, which was struck in the previous month, affects 12 Pacific Rim countries, along with Japan and the United States.

The Republican USA senator David Vitter and Democratic state representative John Bel Edwards highlighted their strategies on Saturday night, as the candidate list was whittled to two in the governor’s race. Vitter is trying to make his head-to-head matchup with Edwards a...

President Obama on Friday rejected the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, bringing an end to a seven-year review process that had become a high-profile political battle and a stand-in for a larger debate about the climate and the economy.