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Where are we at with recessionary risks? We currently find ourselves in unprecedented times, economically speaking. The pandemic saw governments physically inject cash into millions of Canadian’s and American’s bank accounts in an effort to prevent a...

Equity market volatility has picked up noticeably in recent weeks, with rather large swings higher and lower. To make matters more painful for portfolios, bond prices have moved lower, suggesting they have not offered the kind of diversification benefits...

Geopolitical tensions between the Ukraine and Russia have been bubbling to the surface for some time, but they took a meaningful turn over the past few days with Russia embarking on an invasion of its neighbor that is broader in scope than expected. First...

Some thoughts on market’s behavior to start the year 2022 has been challenging out of the gate and that is the very topic I wanted to focus this update on. First we need to start with the acknowledgement that 2022 is a transition year for both the bond...

Imagine we have three investors. Each start with a $10,000 investment in the S&P 500 index on Dec 31st, 1989, and from there each investor contributes $1,200 annually to their investment but in very different ways: Investor 1: is a perfect market timer...

An online-driven short squeeze Several obscure and smaller stocks (GameStop Corp is the poster child) worldwide witnessed extreme price moves over the past few weeks. One common characteristic has been that each of these stocks had been heavily “shorted”...

Turning to the markets, global indices marched higher over the past week, in a shortened week for the U.S. markets. Many stock markets are approaching the peaks reached at the beginning of the year. Investors have grown more comfortable with the possibility...

Science on the verge of a medical breakthrough U.S. drug maker Pfizer and its partner, German biotechnology company BioNTech, announced a positive development on the vaccine front this past week. More specifically, preliminary data from a Phase 3 clinical...

There is a lot of ink being spilled right now from every media outlet regarding the current electoral situation, the various paths to victory for both Biden and Trump, and discussion on the fact that the entire situation still remains undecided as we...