Global markets

Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, June 1 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – As economists widely expected, the Bank of Canada increased its key interest rate by a half point to 1.5 per cent on Wednesday. This followed the central bank’s previous half-point […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canada’s economy expanded by a less-than-expected 3.1 per cent annualized pace in the first quarter, Statistics Canada reported on Tuesday. By comparison, many economists had predicted a 5.2 per cent increase in GDP while there was a 6.6 […] Read more

Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, May 30 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Global stock markets and crude oil prices were on the rise Monday morning as China eased some of its COVID-19 restrictions. With China as the world’s second largest economy and […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, May 27 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Nearly 200 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in more than 20 countries that are not usually known to have outbreaks of the disease endemic to West Africa, according to a report from the […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, May 26 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Turkey is reportedly in talks with Russia and Ukraine to mediate a solution to allowing grain exports from Ukrainian ports. A corridor of safe-passage through the Black Sea to the Bosphorus straight in Istanbul […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, May 25 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – An 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas on Tuesday, before being killed himself by law enforcement. The attack was the deadliest school shooting in the United […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, May 24 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – As the war in Ukraine reaches the three-month mark, Russian forces were reportedly launching an all-out assault on Ukrainian troops in the eastern Donbas region of the country in an attempt to encircle and […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The Canadian government announced on Thursday it will not allow Chinese telecommunications companies Huawei Technologies and ZTE access to the country’s 5G wireless networks, citing security concerns. Telecommunication firms in Canada will not be permitted to include any […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canada’s annual inflation rate has reached a point unseen for more than three decades, Statistics Canada reported on Wednesday. The rate rose to 6.8 per cent in April, the highest level since January 1991. The core inflation rate […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – In its weekly report, Natural Resources Canada announced on Tuesday that the average price of gasoline per litre in Canada has exceeded the C$2 mark for the first time ever. The new all-time high of C$2.06/L is nine […] Read more