Global markets

WINNIPEG, March 30 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) recommended on Monday the suspension of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for people under the age of 55 due to the risk of rare but potentially fatal blood clots. […] Read more

WINNIPEG, March 29 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The Ever Given container ship, which ran aground in the Suez Canal on March 24 blocking the shipping route, was partially refloated on Monday but is still days away from moving once again. The Suez […] Read more

WINNIPEG, March 26 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Three days after the container ship Ever Given ran aground, blocking the Suez Canal, attempts are still ongoing to move the vessel and clear the blockage. The Suez Canal Authority said it has begun dredging […] Read more

WINNIPEG, March 25 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The Supreme Court of Canada will make its decision later today on whether the federal government’s pricing on carbon is constitutional or not. The question to be answered is whether the federal government had the […] Read more

WINNIPEG, March 24 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The Canadian federal government announced on Tuesday it will table its first budget since 2019 in the House of Commons on April 19. In the government’s fall economic statement last November, it projected a deficit […] Read more

WINNIPEG, March 23 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Stock index futures in the United States declined in early trading on Tuesday as investors await testimony by both Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell and Treasury secretary Janet Yellen in congressional hearings later today. Investors […] Read more

WINNIPEG, March 22 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) announced on Sunday it has agreed to purchase Kansas City Southern for US$25 billion in an attempt to create a 32,000-kilometre rail network extending into both the United States and Mexico. […] Read more

Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 19 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – After only two hours, the espionage trial for Canadian Michael Spavor came to an end on Friday. Spavor, along with Michael Kovrig were detained by Chinese officials shortly after Canadian […] Read more

Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 18 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Worries are rising in Canada over the B117 variant of COVID-19 with nearly 4,000 cases reported across the country on Wednesday. Ontario leads with 1,134 cases, followed by Alberta with […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 17 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Statistics Canada said on Wednesday that the country’s consumer price index was up in February largely due to increases in higher gasoline prices. The annual pace of inflation last month gained 1.1 per […] Read more