Global markets

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 […] Read more

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 […] Read more

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. […] Read more

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 […] Read more

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 […] Read more

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 […] Read more

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 […] Read more

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 […] Read more

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, […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, May 31 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – China is easing its policy on childbirth, announcing Monday that married couples will now be able to have up to three children. The ‘one-child policy’ allowing only one child for most couples that […] Read more