Does slowing growth have a silver lining for fixed income investors?

June 30, 2022 |Atul Bhatia, CFA

It’s important to consider secondary impacts of slowing growth, and we look at how investors may see positives in today’s economic backdrop.

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Audio commentary: The 2022 Midyear Outlook

June 30, 2022 |Janet Engels, Thomas Garretson & Tylar Lunke

After a volatile first half of 2022 marked by surging inflation and uncertain economic conditions, what’s in store for rates, the Fed, and markets?

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Immigration Nation: New Canadians are vital to an aging society

June 29, 2022 |Nathan Janzen, Claire Fan and Carrie Freestone

A wave of new Canadians is coming—and just in time.

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Where We Stand: Inflation, the Economy and Markets

June 28, 2022 |Matt Barasch

Canadian inflation basically comes from three sources: 1) housing; 2) stuff we produce and consumer domestically that’s not housing related and 3) stuff we buy from foreign sources. All three have been contributing to inflation.

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Shrinkflation

June 13, 2022 |Matt Barasch

While we have spent a fair bit of time talking about inflation over the past year (and will very likely discuss more in the coming months), the newest phenomena in the “inflation game” is so called “shrinkflation”.

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Want to age at home? Learn which wearables and medical devices can help

June 10, 2022 |RBC Wealth Management

From voice-activated home alarms to smartwatches with blood sugar monitors, learn how you can age at home with the help of technology.

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Canada's housing markets rebalancing fast

June 09, 2022 |Robert Hogue
The wind is definitely shifting—and becoming a lot chillier—for Canada’s housing market. Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa and Hamilton were among the areas experiencing significant pullbacks in home resale activity in May. For many of them this represented...
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Economic Update

June 06, 2022 |Matt Barasch

This week we saw a few data releases which are going to paint the picture for the second half of 2022 into 2023.

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Bank of Canada hikes interest rates another 50 bps and isn’t done yet

June 01, 2022 |Josh Nye, Senior Economist, RBC Economics

Rate hike is the second in a row from the Bank of Canada.

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