RBC insights

In our annual look at the markets going into the year ahead, we find ourselves in a world where there are a lot of good reasons to stay invested, but also a world where a lot of people already know all these reasons and are watching evermore intently...

Despite potential headwinds, we are generally constructive on Canadian markets, though we expect less outperformance in credit.

While a lot has happened to, and within, various stock markets since election day in America (and we touch on that briefly at the start here), the most interesting potential opportunity going forward in our opinion lies elsewhere as participants in this...

China’s economy is struggling. A coordinated stimulus to curb the crippling housing crisis and support local governments is being announced. We explore the measures undertaken and contemplated and their potential implications for portfolios.

The Bank of Canada lowered its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point in October, to 3.75%.

As we enter the home stretch of this U.S. Presidential Election, we find ourselves in an overall market environment that is both constructive but vulnerable to a surge in volatility. Here to talk about this set-up, how we deal with elevated market volatility...

The Fed has finally aggressively lowered interest rates. While a steeper yield curve reflects the market’s optimism that rate cuts will shore up the economic outlook, further steepness could be a sign the Fed will cut rates deeply, likely due to a re

A lot gets covered off in our latest video but there's a lot going on worth covering! Our main topic looks at a story that first broke Friday, Sept. 20 involving an infamous island in the U.S. that we don't think got as much attention as it deserved given...

While not much has changed from our perspective since the last time we provided a video update, we do sit today at a point that we haven't experienced in four and a half years, and this has important implications for the market going forward.