By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, July 17 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Two United States Navy (USN) aircraft carriers and their escorts returned to the South China Sea on Friday. The U.S.S. Nimitz and U.S.S. Ronald Reagan had been deployed to the contested international waters […] Read more
Global Markets: USN carriers return to South China Sea
China claims 90% as territorial waters
Global Markets: China’s economy rebounds in second quarter
GDP grows by 3.2 per cent
By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, July 16 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – China reported on Thursday that’s its gross domestic product was bouncing back from the damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the second quarter of 2020, the world’s second largest economy grew by […] Read more
Global Markets: Macklem to set his course for Bank of Canada
Widely expected to freeze interest rate
By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, July 15 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem is scheduled to make his first policy announcement on Wednesday since taking charge of the central bank on June 3. Later this morning, Macklem will speak about […] Read more
Global Markets: Rebels in Libya ask Egypt to intervene in civil war
Medicago launches COVID vaccine trials
By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, July 14 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The civil war in Libya continues to ramp up as the rebel Libyan National Army (LNA) asked Egypt to directly intervene following a series of setbacks. Egypt, along with Russia and the United […] Read more
Global Markets: Missile, drone attack on Saudi oil facility
COVID-19 cases to top 13 million
By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, July 13 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Houthi rebels in Yemen were said to be responsible for an attack on an oil facility in Saudi Arabia on Monday. Several missiles and drones targeted the 400,000 barrel per day refinery in […] Read more
Global Markets: Canadian economy adds jobs in June
By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, July 10 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canada’s economy added nearly a million jobs in June, helping the unemployment rate fall to 12.3 per cent, after hitting a record high of 13.7 per cent the previous month, according to updated […] Read more
Global Markets: Seoul mayor missing
By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, July 9 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The mayor of Seoul, South Korea, Park Won-soon, has gone missing and a massive search is underway. Park left his daughter a ‘will-like’ message before disappearing, according to police. Prior to becoming mayor […] Read more
Global Markets: U.S. nears three million COVID-19 cases
By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, July 8 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States neared three million in the latest data from Johns Hopkins, with over 131,000 deaths in the country attributed to the virus. A record number of new […] Read more
Global Markets: Third coronavirus vaccine in trials
By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – A third possible coronavirus vaccine is moving to the human trial stage of testing. China’s Sinovac Biotech, together with Brazilian vaccine producer Instituto Butantan, will conduct the study on roughly 9,000 healthcare workers in Brazil. – […] Read more
Global Markets: India overtakes Russia for third-worst COVID hotspot
By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, July 6 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – India has overtaken Russia with the third highest COVID-19 cases in the world. With 700,000 confirmed cases and nearly 20,000 deaths, India is now the third-worst in the world behind the United States […] Read more