Global markets

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, May 3 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Europe is reportedly preparing to impose fresh sanctions against Russia as the war in Ukraine continues. The latest economic pressures against the aggressor in the conflict are expected to include a possible embargo on

Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, May 2 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Ukraine issued a claim on Monday that Russian forces are beginning to redeploy from the besieged port city of Mariupol to the country’s east. The claim was supported by the

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, April 29 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canada’s real gross domestic product was up by 1.1 per cent on a monthly basis in February, marking the ninth monthly increase in a row. Preliminary estimates for March call for 0.5 per cent

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, April 28 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The United States economy experienced an unexpected contraction in the first quarter of 2022, with the country’s gross domestic product down by 1.4 per cent on an annualized basis. The decline was the first

Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, April 27 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Russia cut off gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria on Wednesday after both countries refused to pay for the gas in Russian rubles. While Poland’s energy consumption is nine per

Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, April 26 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – As the United States and several other countries ramp up their military aid to Ukraine, Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov raised the spectre of a nuclear conflict on Tuesday. “The

Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, April 25 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Five railway stations in central and western Ukraine were struck by Russian missiles on Monday, according to Oleksander Kamyshin, the chair of Ukrzaliznytsia – the country’s state railway. While Kamyshin

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Rustam Minnekayev, the deputy commander of Russia’s central military district, told state news agencies on Friday the country aims to seize the entire Donbas region and capture all of southern Ukraine. In response, the defence ministry of Ukraine

WINNIPEG, April 21 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed victory in the eastern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on Thursday despite not ordering troops to attack 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers holed up underneath a steel plant. Putin added that “combat

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Statistics Canada announced on Wednesday that Canada’s annual inflation rate rose to 6.7 per cent in March, the highest level since January 1991. The rate was a full percentage point higher than the previous month. Transportation costs were