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Uncertainty abounds as the emerging trade war threatens economic growth, complicates the outlook on inflation, and stokes financial-market volatility, causing investors to weigh a wide range of possible outcomes. In this environment, stocks are under...

Canada Potential and actual impacts of a trade war with the country’s largest trading partner, the United States, has cast a chill over spending for both consumers and businesses, and created deep uncertainty over what harmful trade actions in the future...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...