Market Overview Analysis & Opinion

There was a minor shakeup on markets this morning as China again made headlines by announcing that it is considering reducing or even eliminating its purchases of U.S. bonds, potentially in favour of...

Global equities have taken a well-deserved pause overnight as investors access the recent surge in sovereign bond yields.Higher global yields was always going to be one of the major trading themes for...

The shockwave set off on Friday by the impressive Canadian job creation reading helped our currency revisit the highs seen in late September 2017. The consistent strength of our job market combined...

With risk assets enjoying a strong start to the new year, the beginning of corporate earnings season is expected to dictate the next move for the stock markets.In overnight trade, the EUR...

From a monetary policy perspective, 2017 was a year in which central banks around the globe shifted, almost in synchronized step it seemed, to refocus on policy “normalization”, at least...

This morning’s release of the Labour Force Survey employment report surpassed market expectations once more. Let us start with general observations showing the significant improvement in labour...

The Canadian economy added almost 80,000 jobs for the second month in a row in December on a surge in part-time employment, and the jobless rate dipped to a 41-year low of 5.7 per cent, Statistics...

Statistics Canada will publish the Labour Force Survey (LFS) report for the month of December on Friday morning. The robust pace of global economic growth contributed to the net addition of 390,000...

Stock markets had a whale of a start to the year with significant gains yesterday. The situation is completely different for the U.S. dollar, which was down across the board.The U.S. dollar is simply...

The U.S. is capable of reaching of 3-percent GDP this year, but growth is likely to slow after that, strategist David Kelly told CNBC on Tuesday.Productivity “really is the key,” said...

This is part two of our annual outlook post for the coming year. In part one, published earlier this week we covered the 2017 outperformers, Stocks and Cryptocurrencies.Risk rose in 2017—via...

Though risk rose in 2017—via North Korea’s ongoing saber rattling in the form of ballistic missile tests; the re-emergence of global populism which this past year included Donald...

It came as quite a surprise when the Retail Sales reading for October showed growth of 1.5% compared to a forecast number as low as 0.3%! The strong showing no doubt contributed to a return to...

During the first half of 2017, the US$ gave up much of the strong gains it had made in late 2014 and 2015, especially after it became clear that it was the central banks of other developed economies...