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

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

Global equity markets are grappling with an executive order signed by U.S. President Trump on February 1st authorizing tariffs to be placed on all Canadian imports beginning Tuesday, February 4th – with a deal then being reached today between President...

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...