Update on Canadian Housing

 March 26, 2021 |Matt Barasch
This week, we thought we will focus on housing. We will mainly focus on a recent Q&A done with Robert Hogue, who is a Senior Economist with RBC Economics and an expert on the Canadian housing market. If you would like to read the full interview, you can...
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COVID-19 Update for the week ending March 19th, 2021

 March 19, 2021 |Matt Barasch
Chart of the Week Below, we highlight U.S. interest rates, which have shifted quite dramatically to start 2021. We comment in more detail in the Market and Economy Section: COVID-19 Update We appear to be in the feared 3rd wave of the virus with a persistent...
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COVID-19 Update for the week ending March 12th, 2021

 March 12, 2021 |Matt Barasch
Chart of the Week While we have been running this chart for several weeks and will continue to do so, we thought we would highlight it this week because Israel has become the first country to cross more than one dose administered per person in its population:...
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Decade of in-Decadence

 March 11, 2021 |Matt Barasch
Coming out of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), most markets performed in a similar fashion for a period of time. There were lots of factors for this – everything was crushed in 2008/09, governments throughout the world had performed both fiscal and...
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COVID-19 Update for the week ending March 5th, 2021

 March 08, 2021 |Matt Barasch
Chart of the Week Perhaps no stock captures the impact of rising rates and a shift in sentiment better than Tesla (TSLA), which is up nearly 300% since March 5th of last year and yet also down ~35% over the past month. We are not buyers of Tesla basically...
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