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WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Statistics Canada reported on Wednesday that Canada’s inflation rate rose to 5.7 per cent in February, its highest level since August 1991 and slightly exceeding analysts’ expectations. Energy prices were primarily responsible for the increase as gasoline prices […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will deliver a virtual address to Canada’s House of Commons on Tuesday, where it is expected he will urge the government to add new sanctions and to convince NATO to implement a no-fly zone […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Russian forces are moving westward while firing artillery at suburbs near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Monday. Russian forces had struck the towns of Brovary, Irpin, Bucha and Hostomel, all near Kyiv, as well as the cities […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 11 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Russian attacks on Ukraine intensified on Friday, with airports and other targets in the western part of the country hit for the first time. Satellite imagery was also reportedly showing Russian troops amassing […] Read more

WINNIPEG, March 10 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – A Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine is drawing condemnation as a war crime from around the world, with at least three dead and 17 wounded. Attacks on at least 18 medical […] Read more

Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 7 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Another day, another agreement in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to allow civilians to flee a number of cities, according to reports on Wednesday. Earlier this week, similar agreements were made, […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 8 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The United States is expected to impose a ban on oil imports from Russia as sanctions against the country grow in response to its invasion of Ukraine. The European Union is also set […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 7 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – As Russian forces continue to bombard Ukraine, a proposal by Moscow that would create corridors for Ukrainians to flee via safe corridors to Belarus and Russia was criticized, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky […] Read more

Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 4 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Brent crude oil could top US$185 per barrel by the end of 2022 if Russian supplies were to remain off of the international market, according to a statement from JPMorgan […] Read more

Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 3 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continued into its eighth day, the exodus of people out of the war-gripped country has topped one million, according to the United Nations on Thursday. […] Read more