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It was another down day for stocks, with Treasury yields climbing amid hawkish remarks from Federal Reserve officials and swaps pricing in a 5 per cent peak policy rate in 2023. The pound wavered after Liz Truss resigned as U.K. prime minister. The warines...

Greg Newman, senior wealth advisor and portfolio manager, Newman Group, ScotiaMcLeod FOCUS: North American stocks and portfolio protection strategies MARKET OUTLOOK: We all know that if you miss the first 20 days of the next bull market historicall...

Calls for price controls, new taxes, profit raids Shortly after the announcement Monday by supermarket giant Loblaws that it would be freezing prices of its No Name brand of products for the next three months, CBC TV’s flagship news show, The N...

While Royal Bank might be the best placed to make the acquisition, that doesn't mean its CEO will do so HSBC Holdings PLC’s Canadian unit has become the belle of the ball on Bay Street, as the country’s financial services heavyweights consider...

Fear of desk-bombing is related to another curious fact of office life: an aversion to using the phone From time to time, office life breeds a catchphrase that sounds deeply strange and yet makes sense as soon as someone says it....

Higher interest rates aren’t solely due to factors beyond our control. Our own excessive spending is mostly responsible Canadians will find no solace in Statistics Canada’s Wednesday announcement of the September inflation numbers. Consumer pri...

Stock traders balked at any rebound attempt on Wednesday, with Treasury yields creeping back to multiyear highs and mounting concern that a hawkish Federal Reserve will raise the odds of a hard landing. The day that marked the 35th anniversary of the equit...

A nightmare scenario for stock pickers is unfolding just as the third-quarter earnings season gets underway. The S&P 500 Index's three-month realized correlation -- a gauge of how closely the top weighted stocks in the benchmark move relative to each other...

Alex Ruus, portfolio manager, Arrow Capital Management FOCUS: North American stocks   MARKET OUTLOOK: With a more difficult economy facing us in the year ahead, the general market is likely to be choppy for the next several quarters. The turmoil of...

Analysts don't expect a flood of new operators this year In a much-awaited decision, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has laid out terms and conditions for a policy aimed at increasing competition and lowering pri...