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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

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Russian forces have now shifted most of their focus on the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine with assaults beginning Monday along a 480-kilometre long front. Russian soldiers who retreated from the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv have since regrouped

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – At least seven people are dead and 11 were wounded after Russian forces fired missiles at the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Monday. The city previously has not been attacked as much as other cities in the

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Ukraine claimed on Thursday that its forces have sunk the Russian warship Moskva in the Black Sea with a missile strike. Russia has denied the strike, saying that a fire onboard forced the ship’s crew to evacuate. The

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The Bank of Canada (BoC) is widely expected to announce Wednesday it will raise its key interest rate by 50 basis points, for the first time since May 2000, to one per cent. It would be the first

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar said on Tuesday the government is trying to verify whether or not Russian forces used phosphorous munitions in the ongoing battle for the port city of Mariupol or not. Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor

WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Russian forces continued its military assault on Ukraine last weekend with shelling in Kharkiv and renewed its offensive of the besieged port city of Mariupol. Russia is also sending reinforcements to the city of Izyum, southeast of Kharkiv,

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, April 8 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canada’s unemployment rate fell to 5.3 per cent in March, hitting its lowest level on records going back to 1976, according to a report from Statistics Canada. The country’s economy added 72,500 new jobs

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, April 7 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will table the latest federal budget on Thursday, with responses to soaring housing prices and the ongoing pandemic expected. Limitations on foreign purchases of some Canadian properties are expected