Category Archives: bank of canada
Canadian Housing Affordability Hits 27 Year Low
Authored by Steve Saretsky via VanCityCondoGuide.com, Nothing says Merry Christmas like a 27 year low for Canadian housing affordability. That’s right, real estate across Canada has not been this un affordable since the year 1990 per RBC. Spoiler alert house prices tumbled shortly thereafter. RBC Bank released their updated Q3 numbers for housing affordability. To […]
Key Events In The Coming Week: Jobs, Brexit, PMI, IP And More
The first full week of December is shaping up as rather busy, with such Tier 1 data in the US as the payrolls report, durable goods orders and trade balance. We also get UK PMI data and GDP, retail sales across the Euro Area, as well as central bank meetings including Australia RBA and BoC […]
The Coming Economic Downturn In Canada
Authored by Deb Shaw via MarketsNow.com, Canadian GDP growth has outperformed this year, helping the Canadian dollar As GDP growth slows and the Bank of Canada turns neutral, catalysts turning negative Crude oil and real estate look set for a downturn, with negative implications for the currency Given its natural resource-based economy, Canada is a […]
Dear Justin Trudeau: Selfies Won’t Cut It
Dear Justin Trudeau: Selfies Won’t Cut It Written by Peter Diekmeyer, Sprott Money News When Justin Trudeau took office as Prime Minister two years ago, he also took on the Minister of Youth portfolio. It was a tough assignment, atop a government infrastructure designed from its core to disregard the interests of Canadian […]
The Central Bank Bubble: How Will It Burst?
Alberto Gallo of Algebris Investments steps up to take his shot at the $64,000 (more like trillion) question in a report published this week “The Central Bank Bubble: How Will It Burst?” Gallo manages the Algebris Macro Credit Fund described as “an unconstrained strategy investing across global bond and credit markets, and with lead responsibility […]
The Stimulus Party Is Ending
By EconMatters We cover the Financial Markets reaction to both the ECB and BOC Central Bank rate decisions and monetary policy adjustments in this subscription video, contact us to get on our subscription video mailing list. The Central Bank Era is coming to an end as the ECB begins the tapering process in earnest in 2018, […]
Frontrunning: October 24
Corker Tells Trump to Stay Out of the Tax Debate (BBG) Food fight? After spats on Twitter, Trump’s having lunch with Senate Republicans (McClatchy) As ‘New Era’ Dawns, Xi’s Party Stays Out of the Sun (WSJ) China enshrines ‘Xi Jinping Thought’, key Xi ally to step down (Reuters) U.S. Set to Resume Admitting Refugees but […]