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Compare the Best GIC Rates in Canada Jan 27th
How to use this tool: You can simply scan the table below to view GIC interest rates offered by financial institutions across Canada. Click on one of the tabs at the top of the table to focus on your choice of Non-Registered, Registered, TFSA-eligible or U.S.-dollar GICs.
Or, follow the prompts in t.... More »
Labour data ‘impressive’ as Canada adds jobs for 10th straight month + MORE Oct 6th
OTTAWA _ The labour market posted a 10th-straight month of net job gains in September to match the economy’s longest monthly streak since the financial crisis almost a decade ago, Statistics Canada said Friday.
The national unemployment rate stayed at a nine-year low of 6.2 per cent after Cana.... More »
Adult kids moving home amid pandemic unrest? Embrace it — but set your financial boundaries first + MORE Nov 9th
Discussing the details up front — including rent, food and child care — will save money, confusion and resentment down the road..... More »
Check your inbox: Investing newsletters can cost you more than a sub fee + MORE Sep 26th
Like most retired or semi-retired investors—even those with traditional 60/40 balanced portfolios—I found 2022 a challenging year. While our family’s investment portfolio is super diversified by asset class and geography, we had our share of losers, most of them SPACs (special purpose acquisit.... More »
What Canada's top CEOs think of the Trudeau government's performance on the economy - The Globe and Mail Jun 29th
What Canada's top CEOs think of the Trudeau government's performance on the economy The Globe and MailAs the country gears up for the October election, The Globe and Mail asked business leaders to help us take stock of the Liberal government's economic ...View full coverage on Google News.... More »
How the stock market would fare if Trump was impeached
– moneysense.ca
FILE – In this May 18, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Trump’s attorneys originally wanted him to submit an updated financial disclosure without certifying the information as true, according to correspondence with the Office of Government Ethics. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)Donald Trump likes to say he moves markets. The past week provided concrete proof of that claim: The Donald acted, and markets fell.
Since the election, markets have largely tuned out the negative headlines about Trump and his administration. Markets generally viewed the goings on in the White House as a distraction from Trump’s promise to implement his so-called pro-growth agenda, such as tax reform.
But the news that Trump allegedly made a personal appeal to then-FBI director James Comey to drop the bureau’s investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, altered the landscape. That revelation shifted the market’s view that Trump’s agenda might not just be delayed, but completely derailed…
U.S. stocks were higher Monday while Canada’s benchmark stock index the TSX was closed for the May long weekend.
The Aeroplan saga ends a long, useless financial detour
– theglobeandmail.com
Aimia, the company which operates the Aeroplan loyalty program, was recently dumped by Air Canada, which will start its own in-house frequent-flier scheme starting in 2020
At the open: Wall St. opens higher as oil, defence stocks gain
– theglobeandmail.com
Climbing crude prices bolster energy shares; Ford stock climbs after CEO replaced
The Canadian banks are expected to benefit from rising U.S. interest rates and fewer bad loans in the oilpatch as they start reporting their latest quarterly results this week, but analysts say worries about the housing market and consumer debt remain key concerns.
