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WINNIPEG, March 24 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The Canadian federal government announced on Tuesday it will table its first budget since 2019 in the House of Commons on April 19. In the government’s fall economic statement last November, it projected a deficit […] Read more

WINNIPEG, March 23 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Stock index futures in the United States declined in early trading on Tuesday as investors await testimony by both Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell and Treasury secretary Janet Yellen in congressional hearings later today. Investors […] Read more

WINNIPEG, March 22 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) announced on Sunday it has agreed to purchase Kansas City Southern for US$25 billion in an attempt to create a 32,000-kilometre rail network extending into both the United States and Mexico. […] Read more

Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 19 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – After only two hours, the espionage trial for Canadian Michael Spavor came to an end on Friday. Spavor, along with Michael Kovrig were detained by Chinese officials shortly after Canadian […] Read more

Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 18 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Worries are rising in Canada over the B117 variant of COVID-19 with nearly 4,000 cases reported across the country on Wednesday. Ontario leads with 1,134 cases, followed by Alberta with […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 17 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Statistics Canada said on Wednesday that the country’s consumer price index was up in February largely due to increases in higher gasoline prices. The annual pace of inflation last month gained 1.1 per […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 16 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – An opinion poll released on Tuesday by the Angus Reid Institute found that Canadians’ views towards China are at an all-time low. Seventy-five per cent of the poll’s respondents agreed that Canada-China relations […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 15 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Rogers Communications announced on Monday that it’s acquiring Shaw Communications for C$26 billion. The deal includes Rogers purchasing shares in Shaw at C$40.50 each, investing C$2.5 billion in 5G network capacity throughout Western […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 12 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canada added 259,000 jobs in February, posting the largest monthly increase since September 2020, according to Statistics Canada data. The jobs growth came in well above market expectations and helped the unemployment rate […] Read more

Complied By Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 11 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Thursday marks one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a global pandemic. So far, more than 118.15 million people around the world contracted the coronavirus, which […] Read more