Global markets

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Oct. 25 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Rishi Sunak was officially sworn in by King Charles as the United Kingdom’s new Prime Minister on Tuesday. Promising to deal with Britain’s economic crisis in an address to the nation, Sunak will now […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Oct. 24 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Rishi Sunak will be the next British Prime Minister as other candidates vying to replace Liz Truss as Conservative Party leader have stepped out of the race. Sunak, the country’s former finance minister, becomes […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Oct. 21 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is a leading contender to replace Liz Truss as leader of the Conservative Party, with former finance minister Rishi Sunak also expected to be in the running. The […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Oct. 19 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – United States President Joe Biden is expected to announce today that the country will release 15 million barrels of oil from its strategic reserve. The move comes in response to recently announced cuts to […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Oct. 18 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Russian drone and missile attacks across Ukraine over the past week have destroyed roughly a third of the embattled country’s power stations, according to reports. Water infrastructure has also been targeted. Ukraine has accused […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Oct. 17 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Russian air attacks on Ukraine continued Monday, with reports of drone strikes on targets in central Kyiv including an apartment building. Russia denies targeting civilians while Iran has denied supplying the drones used in […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Oct. 13 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Russia continued to bombard Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv, with missile and drone attacks on Thursday, with numerous civilian targets hit. Iranian-made ‘kamikaze drones’ were reportedly used in some of the attacks, although Iran denies […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Oct. 12 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Russian missile strikes have caused a Ukrainian nuclear reactor to lose external power for the second time in the past five days, raising concerns over a possible radiation disaster at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia plant. […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Oct. 11 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Deadly Russian missile strikes on numerous Ukrainian targets over the past few days marked the largest escalation of the conflict in months, with targets including parks and tourist destinations. The missile strikes came in […] Read more

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canada’s economy added 21,000 jobs in September for its first monthly gain in four months, according to a report from Statistics Canada released on Friday. That brought the jobless rate down 0.2 of a point to 5.2 per […] Read more