Journal

Market update and key forecasts including Climate Change 2021. The reopening of the global economy, government stimulus and the release of pent-up demand should drive solid GDP and earnings gains over the remainder of this year and into 2022. Share prices...

The continuing U.S. economic recovery has stoked concern that inflation could drive interest rates higher, but a more complicated picture may be coming into focus. We examine the long-term market forces in play and the Fed’s policy options. Will the Fed...

The spike in yields of late has sent shivers through stock markets, which recently reached all-time highs and whose valuations are seen as stretched. But this rise in yields, if contained, isn’t necessarily bad news for stocks.

This issue includes tips to help maintain mental and physical well-being during the pandemic, questions and considerations that can help an investor establish their priorities and goals, an examination of how the new administration in Washington might...

In the end, the rollercoaster that was 2020 left Canada’s housing market more or less where it started the year: full of bidding wars, escalating prices and exasperated buyers unable to find a home they can afford. The pandemic changed some dynamics—it...

Overnight rate held at 0.25% (no “micro cut”) QE continuing at $4 billion per week Growth forecasts revised higher beyond current quarter There was some speculation that the Bank of Canada would start the year with a “micro cut” (lowering the overnight...

The chaos unleashed in Washington has shaken us all. And yet the stock market was largely unfazed, in much the same way it’s shrugged off other challenges thrown its way of late. As the Democrats are about to gain full control of the reins of U.S. government...

Settling in for the long haul – A dark year is giving way to a brighter outlook as the calendar turns, and the Fed has made clear its accommodation will be a way of life for the economy and markets. We look at what’s behind the Fed’s thinking, the fiscal...

Global equity markets marched higher over the past week. Many are approaching the peaks reached at the beginning of the year. Some have even made new all-time highs.