Market Overview

In this episode we look at what capital gains is, a bit of a history on Capital gains in Canada, the recent changes made to the tax, why the government would do this and how if the effect Canadians as...

US futures are indicating a higher open today. European equity markets have opened mostly in the positive territory, following higher levels in Asian markets. Big tech earnings are bright spot in...

Preliminary estimates of second-quarter US GDP activity suggest output may stabilize after two straight quarters of slower growth, based on the median for a set of nowcasts compiled by...

The Fed held its policy meeting, leaving rates unchanged but slowing down quantitative tightening. Today's focus shifts to US labor data: strong figures could justify the Fed's hawkish stance of...

There is a popular meme that the government has an incentive to inflate, because the same debt is worth less in real terms at a higher price level. If inflation is high enough, then the government (it...

What a difference! Comparing the average home prices in Houston Texas with cities all over BC & Ontario & Canadian new home buyers are so screwed. This content was originally posted on the...

The Fed meetings seem to create more confusion than needed, but it is what is what it is. I know that even though I wrote yesterday that at 2:35 PM ET, it was possible that we saw the usual FOMC press...

Most of the major asset classes retreated in April. The overall losses mark the worst month for global markets so far in 2024, based on a set of ETFs.The upside outliers last month were limited to...

In an op-ed for the Washington Post (NYSE:POST) on November 5, 2010, Ben Bernanke did a victory lap, praising the Fed’s efforts in stemming the financial crisis. In the article, he discusses how...

The S&P 500 was down about 1.6% heading into the FOMC meeting and Quarterly Refunding Announcement today. The VIX 1-Day was up 8.3 points to 18.10, which suggests much of the decline yesterday...

Simon (our podfather) from the Canadian Investor Podcast joins Dan to discuss stocks vs. real estate. If you're looking for the first part its on the Canadian Investor Podcast. Original...

In this episode, we explore Canada's steps towards open banking. The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada and the Ministry of Finance have allocated funding to establish an open banking framework by...

Summing up the huge number of Government initiatives to do with solving Canada's Housing Crisis. What works? What won't work? What's just BS? More Mortgage Rate News: It ain't pretty. When will the...

The value of modeling recession risk-based multiple indicators is a hardy perennial. The latest example comes by way of aggregating trends in the 50 US state economies for estimating the odds that an...