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WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The Bank of Canada (BoC) is widely expected to announce Wednesday it will raise its key interest rate by 50 basis points, for the first time since May 2000, to one per cent. It would be the first […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar said on Tuesday the government is trying to verify whether or not Russian forces used phosphorous munitions in the ongoing battle for the port city of Mariupol or not. Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Russian forces continued its military assault on Ukraine last weekend with shelling in Kharkiv and renewed its offensive of the besieged port city of Mariupol. Russia is also sending reinforcements to the city of Izyum, southeast of Kharkiv, […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, April 8 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canada’s unemployment rate fell to 5.3 per cent in March, hitting its lowest level on records going back to 1976, according to a report from Statistics Canada. The country’s economy added 72,500 new jobs […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, April 7 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will table the latest federal budget on Thursday, with responses to soaring housing prices and the ongoing pandemic expected. Limitations on foreign purchases of some Canadian properties are expected […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, April 6 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The latest round of sanctions against Russia, announced by the United States and its allies in the G7 and European Union, will target banks and officials by banning new investment in the country. The […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, April 5 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky will address the United Nations’ Security Council on Tuesday in a largely symbolic gesture. His speech comes as reports of civilian deaths and other alleged war crimes carried out by […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, April 4 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Elon Musk, the billionaire head of Tesla, announced Monday that he had purchased a 9.2 per cent stake in Twitter, making him the largest shareholder in the social media site. Musk is very active […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Pope Francis apologized for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in the abuses of thousands of Indigenous children in Canada’s residential school system on April 1 after talking with First Nations, Inuit and Metis delegations at the Vatican earlier […] Read more

Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 31 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – As 45 buses headed towards the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on Thursday, skepticism lingered over an apparent Russian ceasefire there. The contingent of buses has been organized by the […] Read more