Insights

The past few weeks have seen more meaningful activity across global equity, fixed income, commodity, and currency markets, marked by an increase in volatility. Two developments were particularly noteworthy. The first is a significant shift in U.S. interest...

Global equity markets have been somewhat directionless over the past few weeks, likely taking a breather after a reasonably good first quarter. Investors are digesting recent jobs reports in Canada and the U.S. Meanwhile, the consensus view remains that...

Expectations that central banks will lower interest rates in the coming months have moderated recently. Meanwhile, the global equity market is off to a reasonably good start this year, driven once again by the U.S. market and large-cap technology stocks...

Happy new year. Market action in the first few weeks has been relatively muted, contrasting with the strong gains witnessed towards the end of last year. This moderation can be attributed to a string of slightly stronger global economic data, prompting...

Thus far, the month of November is proving to be one of the stronger periods of the year with global equity and bond markets notably higher. Those gains have made up for some of the weakness witnessed during the first part of the fall. There may be a...

Our thoughts go out to all those that have been affected by several wildfires across provinces from coast to coast. On the investment front, investors have been predictably preoccupied with the U.S. debt ceiling. Fortunately, a deal has been agreed upon...