Insights

Finding ways to better engage the skills of visible minority workers could boost GDP by close to $30 billion per year.

Inventories generally remain low, leaving few options for buyers to fight over and fueling widespread bidding wars.

Soaring prices and the start of the spring season attracted more sellers, according to early reports from local real estate boards.

The world’s supply chains have endured many blows this century: 9/11, the global financial crisis, the Fukushima earthquake, Brexit. But even in that context, the past year stands out.

The outlook for the global economy improved significantly as vaccine production and distribution ramped up with real GDP expected to increase by 5½% in 2021.

As the pandemic crosses the one-year mark, its early lessons are proving to have remarkable staying power.

Almost half a million Canadian women who lost their jobs during the pandemic hadn’t returned to work as of January.

This year’s virtual World Economic Forum tried to address the challenges shaping 2021. RBC’s CEO Dave McKay shares his takeaways.

RBC’s New Canadian Monthly Macroeconomic Series In the second edition of The Economic Pulse, Dawn Desjardins, RBC’s Deputy Chief Economist takes a closer look at the fragmented recovery of the Canadian labour market and provides her outlook as Canada...