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Washington, D.C. policy decisions have been in the spotlight of late, but we think investors should not take their eyes off the results and clues coming from Q4 earnings season.

Produced by RBC Global Asset Management’s Chief Economist Eric Lascelles.

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

Economics is rife with self-correcting mechanisms, and we give our thoughts on how that dynamic is likely to play out in the relationship between the U.S. budget deficit and longer-term interest rates.

Produced by Eric Lascelles, Managing Director & Chief Economist of RBC GAM

Tariffs can have many economic impacts, but we think investors should focus on the economic and political goals that are driving decision-making.

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...

Global central banks this month have offered something for everyone from further interest rates hikes in Japan to rate cuts in Canada and Europe, while the Federal Reserve remained motionless.