By MarketsFarm
WINNIPEG, April 21 (MarketsFarm) – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.
- Retail sales in Canada were down by 0.2 per cent in February, to C$66.3 billion, with gas stations and fuel vendors posting the largest decline (5.0 per cent). Core retail sales, which exclude that sector and motor vehicles, were up by 0.1 per cent.
- Russia acknowledged Friday that it had accidentally dropped a bomb on the Russian city of Belgorod, 40km from the Ukrainian border. The city of 340,000 has been regularly hit by Ukrainian drone attacks, but the latest explosion was far more powerful than anything experienced to date, with two people reportedly injured in the blast.
- Fighting between the army and a paramilitary group continued in Sudan, with the World Health Organization reporting that more than 400 people have been killed in the conflict so far, including a humanitarian aid worker, with thousands injured.
