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Reading Time: < 1 minute Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm — The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.   Voters in the United States head to the polls today to vote in their next president. Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump are vying for the country’s top job, with long lines at polling […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm — The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.   Donald Trump and Kamala Harris were making their final pushes ahead of Tuesday’s United States presidential election, with the two candidates slated to make stops at key battleground states on Monday.   Moldova’s presidential runoff […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute Glacier FarmMedia MarketsFarm – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday that 12,000 jobs were added to the country’s economy in October. The low number was attributed to hurricanes and striking workers. However, the unemployment rate remained […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm  – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Statistics Canada reported this morning Canada’s economy may have grown at an annual rate of one per cent in the third quarter. It also estimated that real gross domestic product was up by 0.3 per […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canada Post made a contract offer to the Canadian Union of Postal Workers in hopes of avoiding a work stoppage next month. The proposal included annual wage increases of 11.5 per cent over four years, […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The Saskatchewan Party, led by incumbent Premier Scott Moe, won its fifth straight majority in the 30th Saskatchewan general election on Monday. The party was elected to or leading in 35 seats, while the New Democrats […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Saskatchewan residents will go to the ballot box for the province’s 30th general election on Monday. Recent polls suggested that the New Democrats, led by Carla Beck, have a slight lead over the incumbent right-wing Saskatchewan […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute Global Markets: Retail sales improve in August   By Glen Hallick   Glacier Farm Media MarketsFarm – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.   Statistics Canada reported on Friday that retail sales in August rose 0.4 per cent at C$66.6 billion. Fueling the increase was the motor […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute By Glen Hallick   Glacier Farm Media MarketsFarm – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.   Striking machinists at Boeing voted 64 per cent against a tentative deal with the company on Wednesday. The 33,000 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers rejected the […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes By Glen Hallick   Glacier Farm Media MarketsFarm – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.   The Bank of Canada slashed its key interest rates by 50 points on Wednesday, bringing them to 3.75 per cent. Meanwhile the BoC reduced its bank rate to four per cent. […] Read more