Global markets

WINNIPEG, Sep. 17 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Hurricane Sally was downgraded to a tropical depression, but was still bringing heavy rains and flooding along the southeastern United States on Thursday. At least one person has died from the storm, with hundreds of […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Sep. 16 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canada’s annual rate of inflation held at 0.1 per cent in August, according to updated Statistics Canada data, as declining gasoline prices were offset by the rising cost of food. The 0.1 per […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Sep. 15 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canadian countermeasures against United States aluminum tariffs will be announced by the government on Tuesday. The estimated C$3.6 billion in counter-measures will come in response to 10 per cent tariffs announced by the […] Read more

WINNIPEG, Sep. 14 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – New Brunswick is voting on a new provincial government today, after a snap election was called four weeks ago. Incumbent Progressive Conservative Premier Blaine Higgs has led a minority government for the past two years […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Sept. 11 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Tensions are building up between Turkey and Greece, raising the specter of military action between the two NATO and European Union allies. Greece recently denounced Turkey’s move to survey oil and gas fields […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Sept. 10 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – United States President Donald Trump admitted he knew all along how dangerous the COVID-19 pandemic was going to be. In a recorded interview with journalist Bob Woodward, Trump claimed he didn’t want to […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Sept. 9 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – A trial for a coronavirus vaccine was halted on Wednesday by the World Health Organization, after a study participant contracted an unexplained illness. The vaccine was being developed by AstraZeneca along with the […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Sept. 8 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – There are reports on Tuesday stating that Democratic nominee Joe Biden might maintain some of the tariffs on China that were imposed by the Trump administration, should he be elected president in November. […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Sep. 4 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Jobs growth in the United States slowed in August, with nonfarm payrolls increasing by 1.371 million jobs. That compares with an increase of 1.734 million the previous month, as government financial aid ran […] Read more

By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, Sep. 2 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The trial of 14 alleged accomplices in the 2015 attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo began in Paris on Wednesday. Twelve people were killed in the attack claimed by al Qaeda on Jan. […] Read more