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It has been more than 18 months since Budget 2024 – and nearly a year since the previous government’s ill-fated Fall Economic Statement – and much has changed in the interim. There is a new government in Ottawa with campaign promises to deliver on and...

It’s hard to believe we’re already heading into the last six weeks of 2025.

It's been quite a ride so far in 2025. Tariff talks drove a big part of the negative performance early in the year and now the focus have moved to GDP and corporate earnings growth. In Q2 companies continued to demonstrate resiliency with stronger-than-expected...

Q2 Overview Global stock markets battled uncertainty this quarter with a multitude of new Tariff announcements followed up by the “One Big Beautiful Bill”, as well as some geopolitical uncertainty. Even though there were many reasons for the market to...

It has been an eventful week as President Donald Trump officially announced his long-awaited tariff strategy. From a high level, a baseline 10% minimum tariff is being applied to all countries as of April 5. Countries that account for the bulk of the...

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 twists and turns undertaken by President Trump and all the Tariff talk. While many people, including ourselves, are “tariff-ed”...

It’s tough to believe we are already past the midway point of January, time certainly does fly. We trust your start to 2025 has been good and we look forward to the opportunity to continue to build on the great work we’ve done together in what promises...

It has already been an eventful year in U.S. politics and the election is still a couple months away. Questions often come up as we get closer to the election, most notably, whether a Republican or Democratic president will be better for the markets....

It has been a rough start to August with the market selling off, adding volatility to a market that has been remarkably stable through the first 7 months of the year. The recent volatility can be attributed to a number of factors, most notably a general...