Recent Housing Affordability Loss May Prove Temporary

September 06, 2024 |Rhonda Hymers
Canadian housing affordability could improve as home prices bring interest rates lower, finds RBC Economics in its latest Housing Trends and Affordability report. Click here to read report “Minimizing downside risk while maximizing the upside is a powerful...
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How renewed COVID fears rattled stock markets

September 06, 2024 |Rhonda Hymers
How renewed COVID fears rattled stock markets Global stock markets plunged on Thursday June 11th after the U.S. Federal Reserve issued grim economic projections for the rest of 2020 and beyond. Budding investor optimism was quickly replaced with the sobering...
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The road to recovery for the U.S. economy

September 06, 2024 |Rhonda Hymers
GLOBAL INSIGHT JUN 3, 2020 The road to recovery for the U.S. economy Tom Porcelli, a Managing Director and Chief U.S. Economist at RBC Capital Markets, joins Janet Engels, Head of the Portfolio Advisory Group – U.S., to discuss the post-COVID-19 U.S....
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A week for the record books - Market Update from Hymers Wealth Management Group

September 06, 2024 |Rhonda Hymers
As the author of the Global Insight Weekly noted, what difference a week makes. Fear of the coronavirus continued to grip the markets. Please click HERE for the Global Insight Weekly. Although market corrections are unsettling and often feel scary, we...
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This week's Blog - Putting things in Perspective - Last Week in the markets

September 06, 2024 |Rhonda Hymers
On Wednesday August 14th, several news publications were sounding the alarm bells on the market with headlines "TSX and Dow plunge in worst day of the year", and while the TSX index declined 304 points and the Dow 800 points, it is important to put things...
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Okanagan Wine Festival - RBC Global Asset Management: The Big Picture, Global Insight & Featured Articles

September 06, 2024 |Rhonda Hymers
Good morning, I trust you are enjoying this lovely September weather. It is always nice to get settled back into a routine after a fun summer. With cooler weather on the horizon, we are excited to start enjoying some pumpkin spice lattes and the Fall...
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April's Global Insight & RBC Global Asset Management's #MacroMemo & Webcast with Chief Economist, Eric Lascelles & Team Corner

September 06, 2024 |Rhonda Hymers
Good afternoon, Spring has sprung! Anne Bradstreet could have been speaking about the markets when she said, "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant." Today's blog includes the latest #MacroMemo & Economic Outlook Webcast by our Chief...
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February's Global Insight, Macro-Memo from our Chief Economist Eric Lascelles, Davos 2019 - Globalization in a digital age & 10 Principles of Successful Investing

September 06, 2024 |Rhonda Hymers
Good morning, February is a month when our animal friends take the spotlight. Last week, we looked to the groundhogs across North America to predict when Spring will arrive in 2019, and February 5th marked the Year of the Pig in the Lunar calendar. While...
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MARKET UPDATE: The USMCA: Manageable concessions, less uncertainty

September 06, 2024 |Rhonda Hymers
Good Afternoon, late Sunday joined a reworked, trilateral NAFTA replacement deal. While the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement came somewhat sooner than we were expecting, the details we’ve seen so far point to an outcome with few surprises. The concessions...
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