WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.
– Statistics Canada (StatCan) reported today that the country’s annual inflation rate was 3.8 per cent in September, lower than economists’ expectations and 0.2 points lower than what it was in August. Excluding gasoline, the inflation rate would have been 3.7 per cent, down 0.4 of a point. Nevertheless, gasoline prices dropped 1.3 per cent in September. Grocery prices increased at an annual rate of 5.8 per cent, down from 11 per cent one year ago. The cost-of-living saw a “broad-based” deceleration of 0.1 per cent in September on a monthly basis.
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– United States President Joe Biden will leave for Israel and Jordan on Tuesday to discuss Israel’s aims in its war with Hamas as well as the status of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. Biden will spend part of Wednesday in Tel Aviv to talk with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials, before flying to Amman to speak with Jordan’s King Abdullah, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a long-time opponent to Hamas.
– Belgian police shot and killed a suspected Tunisian extremist on Tuesday in a manhunt, one day after three Swedish men were shot and two were killed in a Brussels street. The victims were to attend a men’s international soccer match between Belgium and Sweden, which was later suspended at halftime. Police will investigate how the alleged perpetrator, who was on police files and was sought for deportation, was able to obtain a military weapon.
