Global markets

Global Markets: Retail sales improve in August   By Glen Hallick   Glacier Farm Media MarketsFarm – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.   Statistics Canada reported on Friday that retail sales in August rose 0.4 per cent at C$66.6 billion. Fueling the increase was the motor […] Read more

By Glen Hallick   Glacier Farm Media MarketsFarm – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.   Striking machinists at Boeing voted 64 per cent against a tentative deal with the company on Wednesday. The 33,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers rejected the […] Read more

By Glen Hallick   Glacier Farm Media MarketsFarm – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.   The Bank of Canada slashed its key interest rates by 50 points on Wednesday, bringing them to 3.75 per cent. Meanwhile the BoC reduced its bank rate to four per cent. […] Read more

By Glen Hallick   Glacier Farm Media MarketsFarm – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.   United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in the Middle East on Tuesday in another attempt to restart ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas. On his eleventh trip to the […] Read more

By Glen Hallick   Glacier Farm Media MarketsFarm – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.   Ahead of the Bank of Canada’s next interest rate announcement, analysts on Monday predicted the central bank could slash its rates by upwards to a half of a percentage point. Forecasters […] Read more

Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm — The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.   Hamas has confirmed that its leader, Yahya Sinwar, was killed in southern Gaza in a recent Israeli attack. Analysts were unsure if Sinwar’s death would hasten the end of the year-long war in Gaza. Hamas […] Read more

Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm — The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.   The European Central Bank lowered its key interest rates by 25 basis points on Thursday, citing easing inflation risks. The rate cuts were the third of the past year as the ECB works to bring […] Read more

Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm — The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.   The latest Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon killed at least 21 people, according to reports. One airstrike on a town in southern Lebanon left six people dead, including the town’s mayor, according to reports. Lebanon’s interim […] Read more

Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm — The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.   Diplomatic tensions between Canada and India intensified Monday, with each country expelling six of the other country’s diplomats. Canada linked the six Indian diplomats expelled to the assassination of Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in […] Read more

Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm — The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.   Hurricane Milton passed over Florida overnight, leaving at least three million households and business without power. The storm whipped up tornadoes, destroyed buildings and killed at least four people. The storm surge was not as […] Read more