Global Markets: U.S. unemployment claims decline

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – New unemployment claims in the United States for the week ended June 19 declined by 7,000 to 411,000, according to the U.S. Labor Department. However, the total still exceeded economists’ projections of 380,000. Weekly unemployment claims in the […] Read more




Global Markets: U.S. oil output to be limited: OPEC+

WINNIPEG, June 18 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Reports state that oil industry experts have told OPEC+ members that oil output from the United States will remain limited this year despite rising prices, according to sources within the organization. This is in anticipation […] Read more





Global Markets: Canadian housing starts on the rise

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) reported today that the annual pace of housing starts, including apartments, condominiums and multiple-unit housing projects, rose 3.2 per cent in May compared to April. The annual pace of urban starts was […] Read more

Global Markets: Netanyahu era comes to an end

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, approved the new coalition government led by Naftali Bennett on Sunday by a 60-59 vote, effectively ending the 12-year tenure of now-former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Bennett, Netanyahu’s former Chief of Staff, will now […] Read more


Global Markets: One billion vaccine doses far from being enough says Oxfam

Calls for breaking of pharmaceutical monopolies on vaccines

Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, June 11 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – At the G7 summit in in the United Kingdom the member countries committed on Friday to providing one billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the world’s poorest countries. However, Oxfam […] Read more

Global Markets: Keystone XL officially dead

Alberta on hook for C$1.3 billion

Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, June 10 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Six months after United States President Joe Biden cancelled the permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline, the Province of Alberta, along with TC Energy, announced on Wednesday that the controversial […] Read more