Global markets

Compiled by MarketsFarm   WINNIPEG, March 6 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. After 20 years of stalled discussions and more recent negotiations, the members of the United Nations signed the Global Ocean Treaty on Saturday. The new treaty updates the UN’s 1994 Law of […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Luxury department store chain Nordstrom announced on Thursday it will cease all operations in Canada, closing all 13 of its stores and cutting 2,500 jobs. Chief executive Erik Nordstrom said in a statement there was “no realistic path […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke to each other for 10 minutes at the G20 conference in New Delhi on Wednesday. It was the first time since last summer that […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – A passenger train and a freight train collided at high speed in northern Greece on Tuesday night, killing at least 36 people and injuring 85. Officials said many of the passengers were university students travelling from Athens to […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – After five straight quarters of growth, Canada’s economy was unchanged for the fourth quarter of 2022, according to a report released on Tuesday by Statistics Canada (StatCan). Previously, StatCan estimated 1.6 per cent growth for the quarter. In […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – On Friday, the Bloomberg Nanos Canadian Consumer Index, which measures the consumer confidence of Canadians, rose to its highest level since last September to 47, up 1.3 points from the previous week. The rising figure can be attributed […] Read more

By MarketsFarm   WINNIPEG, Feb. 24 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.   Friday marks the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with no end in sight to the conflict. Ukraine held a ceremony paying tribute to those lost over the past year, […] Read more

By MarketsFarm   WINNIPEG, Feb. 23 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.   Winter storms were causing problems across the United States, with a blizzard warning in Southern California for the first time in decades, interstate closures in Arizona and Wyoming, and thousands of flights […] Read more

By MarketsFarm   WINNIPEG, Feb. 22 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.   An Israeli raid on the West Bank city of Nablus left at least 10 Palestinians dead and wounded 102 more, according to Palestinian officials. The Israeli army provided little explanation for the […] Read more

By MarketsFarm   WINNIPEG, Feb. 21 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.   Canada’s Consumer Price Index was up by 5.9 per cent on an annual basis in January, which compares with the 6.3 per cent annual inflation reported the previous month, according to report […] Read more