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There’s a strong mandate for the current bull market to continue in the new year despite tariff threats from the U.S. and political uncertainties in Canada, said Angelo Kourkafas, senior investment strategist at Edward Jones.
“When we take a step back and look at the foundation … it is ongoing economic growth,” Kourkafas said. “It is rising corporate profits and the outlook for lower interest rates at a gradual pace and all these things will remain in place for 2025.”
The S&P/TSX composite index hit record heights in 2024 and ended 18% higher for the year.
Kourkafas predicts the uptick will continue for another year “but likely, we are going to see volatility increase and the pace of gains slow.”
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The changes were first floated in the government’s April budget, but later broken out from the rest of the fiscal plan in a notice of ways and means motion. That motion never got royal assent because Parliament stalled last year when the Tories began filibustering over the government’s green technology fund.
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