AWMG Newsletter: A Perspective on the 2025 Financial Markets

April 17, 2025 |RBC Portfolio Advisory Group
What a difference a few weeks, or even days, makes. In a major pivot, the U.S. administration went from proposing sweeping tariffs across many of its trading partners to then extending a three-month reprieve for all countries. The exception is China,...
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AWMG Newsletter: A Perspective on the 2025 Financial Markets

April 04, 2025 |RBC Portfolio Advisory Group
Global equity markets fell more sharply this week following the revelation from the U.S. administration that its reciprocal tariffs will be much broader and larger than most investors expected. The “Liberation Day” announcement raised the spectre of a...
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AWMG Newsletter: A Perspective on the 2025 Financial Markets

March 21, 2025 |RBC Portfolio Advisory Group
Global markets have benefitted from the lack of trade-related noise over the past few weeks, with markets outside of the U.S. continuing to outperform year-to-date. Despite the relative calm on the tariff front, there were important developments elsewhere...
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AWMG Newsletter: A Perspective on the 2025 Financial Markets

March 07, 2025 |RBC Portfolio Advisory Group
Believe it or not, but we are only in the month of March. Yet, it has been quite the year already given the policy shifts and turns undertaken by the U.S. administration. While many people, including ourselves, are “tariff-ed” out at this point, we discuss...
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AWMG Newsletter: A Perspective on the 2025 Financial Markets

February 21, 2025 |RBC Portfolio Advisory Group
As investors we know that risk and uncertainty are part of the equation when investing in the great businesses that make up our financial markets. If not for risk and uncertainty, the best we could hope for is the risk-free rate of return from a guaranteed...
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AWMG Newsletter: A Perspective on the 2025 Financial Markets

February 04, 2025 |RBC Portfolio Advisory Group
Global equity markets have been grappling with the threat of U.S. tariffs in recent days. Markets have digested the news reasonably well as the selloff has been unremarkable. That may be partly attributable to uncertainty as to the timing of when tariffs...
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AWMG Newsletter: A Perspective on the 2025 Financial Markets

January 24, 2025 |RBC Portfolio Advisory Group
Global equity markets have spent the past month adjusting to the view that the U.S. Federal Reserve may be nearing the end of its rate cutting campaign. Nevertheless, markets experienced some renewed strength over the past week after a subdued early start...
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AWMG Newsletter: A Perspective on the 2025 Financial Markets

January 10, 2025 |RBC Portfolio Advisory Group
Happy New Year. The stock markets closed out a strong year on a quieter note as investors began to recalibrate their expectations for future interest rate cuts by the U.S. Federal Reserve. This shift in expectations led to a rise in government bond yields...
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AWMG Newsletter: A Perspective on the 2024 Financial Markets

December 13, 2024 |RBC Portfolio Advisory Group
A continued decline in inflationary pressures, combined with ongoing signs of a cooling Canadian economy, recently prompted the Bank of Canada (BoC) to cut interest rates for the fifth consecutive time. In the U.S., the Federal Reserve is also expected...
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AWMG Newsletter: A Perspective on the 2024 Financial Markets

November 29, 2024 |RBC Portfolio Advisory Group
North American equity markets are flirting with new highs, even as the incoming U.S. administration introduced fresh uncertainty. President-elect Donald Trump recently proposed sweeping tariffs: 25% on imports from Canada and Mexico and an additional...
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