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Minutes of Canadian Fixed-Income Forum show members venting their frustration with a decision few saw coming A group of fixed-income investors overseen by the Bank of Canada is livid over Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s decision to cancel...

Stocks dropped and the dollar rallied after a wave of rate hikes from central banks this week, with the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank warning of more pain to come. Sign up to get breaking news email alerts sent directly to your inbox...

Canada's main stock index fell by almost 1.5 per cent Thursday with broad-based declines, while U.S. stock markets fell even further a day after the U.S. Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate and said it expects rates still needed to go higher. S...

Brian Madden, chief Investment Officer, First Avenue Investment Counsel FOCUS: North American equities  MARKET OUTLOOK: Despite the widely touted “Santa Claus rally,” or propensity for December to serve up gains for stocks, which is overdue to begi...

'This is good news for the province,' says Alberta environment minister Alberta’s tax on industrial carbon dioxide emissions will triple by 2030 in order to keep pace with the federal carbon pricing schedule, according to an order in council is...

Rising interest rates have pushed qualifying rate above 8% for some borrowers Canada’s federal banking regulator is leaving the stress test for uninsured mortgages unchanged, citing economic uncertainty and increasing vulnerabilities in the fin...

'You can’t paint any lipstick on what is happening in terms of consumer credit quality,' says David Rosenberg Consumer debt payments in Canada are significantly higher today than when interest rates were in the low teens in 1990, a sign of the...

Rates now seeing topping 5% in new year NEW YORK — U.S. stock indexes closed sharply lower on Thursday, with each of the major averages suffering their biggest daily percentage drop in weeks, as fears intensified that the Federal Reserve’s batt...

Average wait time to get a new car delivered can be upwards of six months Things were supposed to be different in 2023 for car manufacturers, dealers, prospective car buyers and lovers of auto shows, those annual pageants of polished steel and...

U.S. stocks snapped a two-day rally after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell reiterated his hawkish stance but signaled the central bank is getting “close” to reaching the end of a tightening cycle that pushed rates from near zero to 4.5 per cent since March...