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Canada’s building homes fast─but for how long?

May 07, 2025 |Robert Hogue

Slumping pre-construction sales are slowing the flow of units entering the pipeline and this could have negative consequences for supply growth in the medium to longer term.

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Turning the Tables: How Canada can shake off the U.S. softwood lumber dispute and grow the sector

Turning the Tables: How Canada can shake off the U.S. softwood lumber dispute and grow the sector

March 28, 2025 |Ajay Nandalall
Canada’s intractable softwood lumber dispute with the U.S. has long cast a shadow over the country’s promising forestry sector. However, reimagining its potential, building a value-added industry, and seeking new markets could be the playbook that Canada...
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Canada’s housing market retreats amid trade war

Canada’s housing market retreats amid trade war

March 19, 2025 |Robert Hogue
The threat of U.S. tariffs has become top of mind for those considering buying or selling a home in Canada. Concerns about the significant damage that hefty tariffs would inflict on the economy prompted many buyers and sellers to hit pause in February—leading...
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Video: An investor’s guide to trade tensions

Video: An investor’s guide to trade tensions

February 20, 2025 |Tasneem Azim-Khan

Tasneem Azim-Khan, chief investment strategist for RBC Phillips, Hager & North Investment Counsel, discusses what investors should keep in mind.

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Canada’s housing market outlook: Sustaining recovery in uncertain times

Canada’s housing market outlook: Sustaining recovery in uncertain times

February 11, 2025 |Robert Hogue

The significant risk that tariffs pose to Canada’s economy casts a potentially dark shadow over the housing market.

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A U.S.-Canada trade shock now in play: first economic takeaways

A U.S.-Canada trade shock now in play: first economic takeaways

February 02, 2025 |Frances Donald and Nathan Janzen
Canada has been hit with its largest trade shock in nearly 100 years. RBC Economics now finds itself balancing the desire to produce a clear analysis with the recognition that the evolution of trade policies, and policymakers’ responses to them, still...
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A playbook for how to measure a tariff shock in Canada

A playbook for how to measure a tariff shock in Canada

January 23, 2025 |Frances Donald and Nathan Janzen
U.S. President Donald Trump has taken office, and understandably, there is growing concern about what threatened American tariffs could mean for the Canadian economy. Economists have a head start this time around—it isn’t our first pass at assessing the...
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Homebuyers get some affordability relief but strains endure

Homebuyers get some affordability relief but strains endure

January 09, 2025 |Robert Hogue
Homeownership costs have eased for three consecutive quarters in Canada. The share of income a household needs to cover mortgage payments, property taxes and utilities has fallen nationwide to 58.4% by Q3 after reaching an all-time high of 63.8% in Q4...
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Fall Economic Statement 2024: Canada boosts investment appeal and the deficit deepens

Fall Economic Statement 2024: Canada boosts investment appeal and the deficit deepens

December 18, 2024 |Rachel Battaglia, Robert Hogue and Cynthia Leach
Given the political uncertainty facing Canada, the fate of many of the measures announced in the 2024 Fall Economic Statement is highly uncertain. However, the fiscal update still serves as a snapshot of where the economy is headed and how upcoming challenges...
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The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: What now? Election aftermath

The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: What now? Election aftermath

December 16, 2024 |Tasneem Azim-Khan
This is the final report of a four-part series on the 2024 U.S. general election. Part I, Part II and Part III are available for review. It’s been about a month since Donald Trump’s decisive victory in the 2024 U.S. Presidential election concurrent with...
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