Global Markets: Bank of England raises rates

Reading Time: < 1 minute By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, May 5 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The Bank of England raised its key interest rate by a quarter point on Thursday, taking it to its highest level since 2009 of one per cent. Three of the nine rate setters voting […] Read more

Global Markets: Large U.S. interest rate hike expected

Reading Time: < 1 minute By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, May 4 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – The United States Federal Reserve is set to release its latest policy statement later today, with general expectations that the central bank will raise its key overnight rate by half a percentage point. That […] Read more



Global Markets: Russia forces said to be redeploying to Ukraine’s east

Russia also targeting key infrastructure

Reading Time: < 1 minute Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, May 2 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Ukraine issued a claim on Monday that Russian forces are beginning to redeploy from the besieged port city of Mariupol to the country’s east. The claim was supported by the […] Read more


Global Markets: Rising inflation reported

Reading Time: < 1 minute By MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, April 29 – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Canada’s real gross domestic product was up by 1.1 per cent on a monthly basis in February, marking the ninth monthly increase in a row. Preliminary estimates for March call for 0.5 per cent […] Read more



Global Markets: Fossil fuel woes felt around the world

Russia cuts gas to Poland, Bulgaria

Reading Time: < 1 minute Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, April 27 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – Russia cut off gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria on Wednesday after both countries refused to pay for the gas in Russian rubles. While Poland’s energy consumption is nine per […] Read more

Global Markets: Lavrov warns of war turning nuclear

'It should not be underestimated'

Reading Time: < 1 minute Compiled by Glen Hallick, MarketsFarm WINNIPEG, April 26 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally. – As the United States and several other countries ramp up their military aid to Ukraine, Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov raised the spectre of a nuclear conflict on Tuesday. “The […] Read more