Global markets

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Jan. 12 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will shuffle his cabinet on Tuesday as his Liberal government positions itself ahead of a likely spring election. Manitoba MP Jim Carr, who had been battling cancer, is […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Jan. 11 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – United States President Donald Trump was on the verge of being impeached for a second time as Democrats will introduce the articles of impeachment in the House of Representatives on Monday. It’s been […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Jan. 8 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Democrats in the United States Congress were weighing the possibility of impeaching President Donald Trump for the second time, less than two weeks ahead of the end of his presidency, after Trump was […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Jan. 7 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The United States Congress has officially confirmed Joe Biden as the country’s next president hours after a protest turned into a violent riot on Wednesday when supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump stormed […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Jan. 6 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – United States Democrats were on the cusp of winning both Georgia runoff races Wednesday morning, overcoming the two Republican incumbents and taking control of the country’s Senate. Democrat Raphael Warnock, a pastor at […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Jan. 5 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Gulf leaders have signed a ‘solidarity and stability’ agreement at a summit in Saudi Arabia, ending a three-year long dispute between Qatar and a group of countries led by Saudi Arabia. Leaders of […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Jan. 4 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – In a recorded phone call over the weekend, United States President Donald Trump was heard urging the election chief of the state of Georgia to ‘find’ more votes and overturn the election results […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Dec. 31 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. United States jobless claims were lower than expected during the week ended Dec. 26, though they remain historically high. Jobless claims declined by 19,000 to total 787,000. Economists expected claims to be over 800,000. […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Dec. 30 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. China revised its official gross domestic product growth rate for 2019 to six per cent from 6.1 per cent, due to lower estimates for manufacturing output. China’s gross domestic product totalled 98.7 trillion yuan, […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Dec. 29 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. India and Pakistan have reported cases of the new, more contagious COVID-19 variant. Several cases have been detected in travellers from the United Kingdom, with three reported in Pakistan an six in India. Epidemiologists […] Read more