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Bi-Weekly Update

Financial markets continue to navigate competing forces from corporate earnings, investor sentiment and economic data. We share our...

Bi-Weekly Update

A range of developments continues to shape the investment landscape, with potential implications for the macro outlook. We discuss...

Bi-Weekly Update

Markets have entered the new year digesting a steady stream of headlines, underscoring the importance of staying focused on fundamentals...

Bi-Weekly Update

RBC Wealth Management has launched the Global Insight 2026 Outlook, titled “The future is here…and gathering speed.” In this week’s...

Bi-Weekly Update

 September 19, 2025 |David Smith
Following recent signs of weakening labour market conditions in Canada and the U.S., central banks in both countries have decided to reduce their benchmark interest rates, resuming monetary easing cycles that had been on hold amidst uncertainty in the...
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Bi-Weekly Update

 September 08, 2025 |David Smith
As Q2 earnings season concludes, we move into what’s historically been a weaker month for stocks. While economic data continues to show soft momentum, the prospect of monetary easing has shored up confidence and lifted many major global equity markets...
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Bi-Weekly Update

 August 22, 2025 |David Smith
Despite ample reasons for pessimism this year, the global economy and markets have largely exceeded expectations. This has sharpened attention on corporate financial results and guidance, as investors look for insight on how firms are navigating a more...
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Video: Explore the connection between wealth, health and aging

Video: Explore the connection between wealth, health and aging

 August 12, 2025 |DA Marketing

Watch a group of leading healthy aging specialists discuss why planning for health, wellness and finances together matters.

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Bi-Weekly Update

 August 08, 2025 |David Smith
As we’ve highlighted in recent letters, this summer has been far from quiet. Markets remain sensitive to a steady flow of headlines, many of them tied to evolving trade developments, which continue to shape investor sentiment. Meanwhile, the second-quarter...
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Bi-Weekly Update

 July 25, 2025 |David Smith
As we’ve noted in some recent letters, the typically quiet nature of the summer period has been anything but. A steady stream of headlines―many trade-related―continue to command the attention of financial market participants. Meanwhile, the second-quarter...
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Bi-Weekly Update

 July 11, 2025 |David Smith
Despite summer typically being more quiet, the headline-filled nature of 2025 has yet to show signs of slowing. A few notable developments have taken place recently, including the signing of a key piece of U.S. legislation and new tariff rates being proposed...
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Bi-Weekly Update

 May 30, 2025 |David Smith
Global equity markets continue to grind higher on the back of the trade war de-escalation. Moreover, a U.S. federal court recently ruled that President Trump had overstepped his authority in using an emergency law to impose tariffs, leaving investors...
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Why women need to be more proactive with their brain health

Why women need to be more proactive with their brain health

 May 21, 2025 |RBC Wealth Management

While Canadian women tend to live about five years longer than men, research shows females account for about 70 percent of people living with dementia and brain-aging diseases.

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Bi-Weekly Update

 May 16, 2025 |David Smith
Global equity markets continued to march higher recently on the back of the de-escalation of the trade war. We discuss recent developments in this ongoing saga. We also return to a question that was on our minds well before the trade war began: the sustainability...
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