Climate Briefing: A Smart Heating Solution For Canada’s Fiscally-Strained Municipalities

Climate Briefing: A Smart Heating Solution For Canada’s Fiscally-Strained Municipalities

August 28, 2024 |Myha Truong-Regan
Policymakers in Canada’s fastest growing cities face a triple challenge over the next decade: how to build their infrastructure for a rapidly growing population, continue lowering greenhouse gas emissions, and ensure that neither strain municipal finances...
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Inflation keeps on slowing in Canada in July

Inflation keeps on slowing in Canada in July

August 20, 2024 |Claire Fan and Abbey Xu

The 2.5% reading is the lowest since March 2021.

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Responsible investing can help bridge the generation gap during wealth transfer

Responsible investing can help bridge the generation gap during wealth transfer

August 01, 2024 |RBC Wealth Management

This type of investing can be used as a launchpad for discussing how family wealth can have a significant impact on pressing global issues.

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Bank of Canada follows up with a second rate cut of 2024

Bank of Canada follows up with a second rate cut of 2024

July 24, 2024 |Claire Fan

After a first interest rate cut in June, the Bank of Canada (BoC) again lowered its key overnight rate by 25 basis points at its meeting Wednesday, to 4.5%. The move was in line with market and our own expectations ahead of the announcement.

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Indoor Vertical Farming: Rising To Meet Local Demand

Indoor Vertical Farming: Rising To Meet Local Demand

July 18, 2024 |Lisa Ashton

How indoor agriculture can serve as a local food source in northern—and urban—settings

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RBC Canadian Inflation Watch

Slowing inflation in June sets the table for a July rate cut from Bank of Canada

July 16, 2024 |Claire Fan and Abbey Xu

The latest Business Outlook Survey largely confirmed further normalizing in a few key areas that the central bank has deemed critical to future inflation trends.

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Bank of Canada set to make the first interest rate cut of easing cycle

June 04, 2024 |Nathan Janzen and Claire Fan
Evidence has continued to build that the current high level of interest rates is no longer needed. All ducks appear to be in a row for the Bank of Canada (BoC) to kick-start the policy easing cycle and lower the overnight rate by 25 basis points to 4...
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Three key ESG themes for 2024

Three key ESG themes for 2024

May 10, 2024 |RBC Wealth Management

RBC Capital Markets' Sustainable Finance Group provides an overview of three key environmental, social and governance themes that it believes will shape the sustainable finance market in 2024.

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Nuclear energy sector getting the push it needs

Nuclear energy sector getting the push it needs

May 08, 2024 |RBC Wealth Management

The nuclear industry is experiencing a rebirth amid the global energy transition, a time of economic and energy security uncertainty and a generational shift of preferences.

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Biodiversity: Investing in the world’s most important asset

Biodiversity: Investing in the world’s most important asset

May 07, 2024 |RBC Wealth Management

Investments in solutions that fight nature and biodiversity loss are a vital step in curtailing climate change and nature-related risks.

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