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By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Oct. 17 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Russian air attacks on Ukraine continued Monday, with reports of drone strikes on targets in central Kyiv including an apartment building. Russia denies targeting civilians while Iran has denied supplying the drones used in […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Oct. 13 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Russia continued to bombard Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv, with missile and drone attacks on Thursday, with numerous civilian targets hit. Iranian-made ‘kamikaze drones’ were reportedly used in some of the attacks, although Iran denies […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Oct. 12 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Russian missile strikes have caused a Ukrainian nuclear reactor to lose external power for the second time in the past five days, raising concerns over a possible radiation disaster at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia plant. […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Oct. 11 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Deadly Russian missile strikes on numerous Ukrainian targets over the past few days marked the largest escalation of the conflict in months, with targets including parks and tourist destinations. The missile strikes came in […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canada’s economy added 21,000 jobs in September for its first monthly gain in four months, according to a report from Statistics Canada released on Friday. That brought the jobless rate down 0.2 of a point to 5.2 per […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The OPEC+ alliance of oil-exporting countries announced on Wednesday it will cut crude oil production by two million barrels per day starting in November, the largest production cut since 2020. However, the impact of the production cuts on […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Russian President Vladimir Putin signed laws on Wednesday in an attempt to annex four Ukrainian territories. Last week, Russia held referendums in its occupied territories to absorb the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, which were […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ), led by incumbent Premier Francois Legault, expanded on its majority in the province’s National Assembly after winning or leading in 89 out of 125 seats in Quebec’s general election on Monday. It was the […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Millions of voters are expected to line up at polling stations across Quebec on Monday for the province’s general election. Out of 6.3 million eligible voters, 23 per cent have cast an early ballot, almost double the percentage […] Read more

Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Sept. 30 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Friday marked the second annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada – to remember the victims and survivors of the country’s former residential school system. For well over […] Read more