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Scotiabank Passport™ Visa Infinite* Review May 19th
Attention MoneyWise readers! Sign up for the Scotiabank Passport™ Visa Infinite* Card today and for a limited time, get up to 25,000 bonus points with your first $1,000 in everyday purchases in the first three months. That’s already $250-worth of rewards!
And for a limited time, get $75 IN.... More »
5 questions you have about the housing market Jul 29th
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Markets are frothy. Emotions are high. Yet, all you really want is to know whether or not the single largest investment you made will avoid a price crash and continue to add substantial value to your net worth statement. To help, here are five answers to questions you m.... More »
Staying in Canada but travelling to a different province this summer? Then, yes, you need travel insurance Aug 11th
Even prior to the pandemic, OHIP did not cover medical expenses such as ambulances, prescription drugs and specialists’ fees in other provinces..... More »
Disability Insurance 101 Aug 27th
Canadian disability insurance 101 here! We discuss the two main DI types (short-term and long-term), along with disability insurance providers (i.e. DI sources). We also touch upon first, second and third level payers and how they tie into "all sources maximum"..... More »
Canada’s new housing risk: uninsured mortgages Jun 12th
Many Canadians are now bypassing mortgage insurance altogether, creating new risks for borrowers and lenders
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More Spastic Speculation Over the Bank of Canada
– ratesupermarket.ca
To say it has been an eventful year thus far for market and interest rate watchers would be an understatement. Pundits have been blindsided not once, but twice by the Bank of Canada on the direction for our national cost of borrowing… and it’s only March.
To recap: the long-held expectation that the Bank of Canada would hike interest rates this year was turned on its head in January, as our central lender implemented a surprise 0.25 per cent cut to its Overnight Lending Rate in response to lower oil prices. That caused a flurry as banks scrambled to respond with changes to their Prime rates and economists realized oil’s impact was a more urgent cause for concern than thought.
Markets took the BoC’s cautionary stance in stride, and overwhelmingly expected another cut to occur in the March 4th announcement – only to be derailed again by a speech made the week prior by BoC Governor Stephen Poloz, announcing measures taken thus far had been sufficient “insurance” against oil’s downfall…
To recap: the long-held expectation that the Bank of Canada would hike interest rates this year was turned on its head in January, as our central lender implemented a surprise 0.25 per cent cut to its Overnight Lending Rate in response to lower oil prices. That caused a flurry as banks scrambled to respond with changes to their Prime rates and economists realized oil’s impact was a more urgent cause for concern than thought.
Markets took the BoC’s cautionary stance in stride, and overwhelmingly expected another cut to occur in the March 4th announcement – only to be derailed again by a speech made the week prior by BoC Governor Stephen Poloz, announcing measures taken thus far had been sufficient “insurance” against oil’s downfall…
Alcohol and Life Insurance
– life-insurance-quotes.ca
All about the consumption of alcohol and buying a life insurance policy. Covers problem drinking, alcoholism and any time spent in a treatment center. We also offer tips to speed up an application as well as types of testing done for medically underwritten life insurance plans.
