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Canada's parliament has narrowly approved Prime Minister Mark Carney's first federal budget, allowing his minority Liberal government to avert an early election.

First Brands and financing groups are negotiating the scope and budget of the examiner’s work and are expected to present a proposal to Lopez at a hearing on Tuesday.

The overall impact on household grocery budgets, however, may still end up feeling relatively modest.

To get its public debt on a meaningful downward path, Japan would need to run consistent primary budget surpluses—surpluses excluding interest payments—while getting on a more rapid economic growth path.

Now the budget is stretched by too many expensive projects, low oil prices and failure to attract investment at the level the kingdom had hoped.