This is shaping up to be the most moribund, comatose, on-life-support market since the Great Ennui of the early 1990s. Then we had a recession, stiffer interest rates and job stress.

The TACO trade resumed on this week, reinforcing two cardinal rules. Never bet against America. Always hedge against Trump. The Trump-Always-Chickens-Out scenario was in full flower yesterday during ...

Finally! Some encouraging news on the inflation front. After the sharpest surge in prices since the early 1980s, inflation ...

Sellers are shunning a race to that bottom. And now we have a scary war in the Middle East that could screw up any recovery ...

This is because of oil, which has jumped (but not spiked) in price. Since the White House has no clue when this conflict will ...

While the award-winning macroeconomists in the steerage section are forecasting market meltdown and a 50% plop in stocks, ...

Big Daddy was in Tokyo to cut a new strategic Canada-Japan deal yesterday. Before that he was taking selfies on the tarmac in Australia. Another deal there. And he went to India, too, rekindling ...

There was a time when emerging markets were Bay Street’s sexiest investment. In 2003, fuelled by rising commodity prices and a near-fanatical belief in China’s growth potential, emerging markets ...

Pieces like the one from Citrini Research tend to resonate because pessimism often sounds sophisticated, especially when it blends legitimate concerns about AI, employment, and financial markets into ...

Next week realtors will crawl out of their winter burrows, squint at the weak sun then likely retreat. No spring this year. When the stats are revealed (Wednesday for the GTA) they’ll show Feb ’25 was ...