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WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, approved the new coalition government led by Naftali Bennett on Sunday by a 60-59 vote, effectively ending the 12-year tenure of now-former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Bennett, Netanyahu’s former Chief of Staff, will now

Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, June 11 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – At the G7 summit in in the United Kingdom the member countries committed on Friday to providing one billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the world’s poorest countries. However, Oxfam

Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, June 10 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Six months after United States President Joe Biden cancelled the permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline, the Province of Alberta, along with TC Energy, announced on Wednesday that the controversial

Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, June 9 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Pembina Pipeline Corp. and the Western Indigenous Pipeline Group announced on Wednesday that they have formed Chinook Pathways in hopes of purchasing the Trans Mountain Pipeline from the Canadian government.

Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, June 8 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Frustration over the closure of the Canada/United States border has been growing in both countries, just as the Canadian government explores a multi-phase approached to re-opening it. Prime Minister Justin

Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, June 7 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The Group of Seven (G7) countries are moving towards an agreement on taxing multinational companies that would include a global minimum corporate tax rate. “Multinational companies need to pay their

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, June 4 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The United States unemployment rate fell to 5.8 per cent in May, from 6.1 per cent the previous month, as the country added 559,000 jobs, according to a report from the U.S. Labor

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, June 3 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The coalition to unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu still needs to pass a confidence vote in the country’s parliament, the Knesset, but is facing some delays as the incumbent’s party still has

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, June 2 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – JBS, the world’s largest meat packing company, should be back in operation on Wednesday after a ransomware attack on the company forced it to shut down operations earlier in the week at many

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, June 1 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Inflation in the Euro zone climbed to 2.0 per cent in May, from 1.6 per cent the previous month, according to data from Eurostat. The rate of inflation came in above market expectations,