WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Russian forces are moving westward while firing artillery at suburbs near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Monday. Russian forces had struck the towns of Brovary, Irpin, Bucha and Hostomel, all near Kyiv, as well as the cities […] Read more
Global Markets: Russia attacks Ukrainian cities
Global Markets: Russian attacks in Ukraine intensify
By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 11 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Russian attacks on Ukraine intensified on Friday, with airports and other targets in the western part of the country hit for the first time. Satellite imagery was also reportedly showing Russian troops amassing […] Read more
Global Markets: Russian attack on hospital condemned
WINNIPEG, March 10 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – A Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine is drawing condemnation as a war crime from around the world, with at least three dead and 17 wounded. Attacks on at least 18 medical […] Read more
Global Markets: 12-hour agreement to allow civilians to flee
Russia artillery have shelled previous safe-passage corridors
Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 7 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Another day, another agreement in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to allow civilians to flee a number of cities, according to reports on Wednesday. Earlier this week, similar agreements were made, […] Read more
Global Markets: More sanctions against Russia
By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 8 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The United States is expected to impose a ban on oil imports from Russia as sanctions against the country grow in response to its invasion of Ukraine. The European Union is also set […] Read more
Global Markets: Russian ‘safe corridors’ criticized
By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 7 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – As Russian forces continue to bombard Ukraine, a proposal by Moscow that would create corridors for Ukrainians to flee via safe corridors to Belarus and Russia was criticized, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky […] Read more
Global Markets: Crude oil could hit US$185/barrel
Brent crude hit 14 year high on Thursday
Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 4 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Brent crude oil could top US$185 per barrel by the end of 2022 if Russian supplies were to remain off of the international market, according to a statement from JPMorgan […] Read more
Global Markets: Refugee exodus exceeds one million
More than half head to Poland
Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 3 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continued into its eighth day, the exodus of people out of the war-gripped country has topped one million, according to the United Nations on Thursday. […] Read more
Global Markets: Russian shelling of Ukrainian cities intensifies
Estimates of more than 2,000 civilians dead in week old war
Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 2 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Russian forces intensified their attacks on Ukrainian port cities of Kherson and Mariupol on Wednesday, as well as Kharkiv, as the Russian invasion of its neighbour entered its seventh day. […] Read more
Global Markets: Russia building up forces outside of Kyiv
Shelling of Kharkiv, Mariupol continues
Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, March 1 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – As a Russian military convoy, reportedly 40 miles long, headed towards Kyiv on Tuesday, the Russian Defence Ministry issued a warning that “precision attacks” will target key buildings in the […] Read more