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Paul MacDonald, chief investment officer and portfolio manager, Harvest Portfolios Group FOCUS: U.S. large cap health-care stocks MARKET OUTLOOK: We believe health care can be a market leader in this cycle. While the macro environment appears to be...

Causes of our slumping growth are domestic, not external Over the last ten years real GDP per capita grew just 0.8 per cent a year on average in this country, its lowest rate of growth since the 1930s. Total GDP has been growing because of our...

Victoria Wells: Employers finding work-from-home not enough to keep staff from quitting may want to consider shorter workweek Employers finding that work-from-home options aren’t enough to keep staffers from quitting might want to consider a ne...

Royal Bank hit by double downgrade Canada’s main stock index fell on May 9, weighed down by financial stocks after Barclays downgraded several banks, while investors remained cautious ahead of U.S. inflation data due on May 10. THIS CON...

The population surge is masking a whole lot of things going on in this country The currency traders bid up the Canadian dollar on May 5 in the wake of the apparent glow from the April jobs data, but it seems clear to me that they didn’t take th...

Canada's main stock index edged higher Monday led by gains in technology and battery metals, while U.S. markets were mixed. The S&P/TSX Composite Index was up 43.12 points, or 0.21 per cent, at 20,585.15. In New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average wa...

The recent turmoil within the U.S. regional banking sector has lured short sellers to the sector and one financial expert believes these smaller banks are in trouble. "The reason that these companies are in trouble is because their lines of business are po...

U.S. equities eked out a small gain Monday while Treasuries fell as investors weighed what it would take to finally reverse the Federal Reserve’s path on rates after a survey of loan demand showed signs of credit tightening. The S&P 500 ended the day littl...

Rick Rule, president and CEO, Rule Investment Media FOCUS: Natural resource stocks MARKET OUTLOOK: Lots and lots of opportunity, but maybe headed into a recession.  Higher interest rates are never good for the economy or markets.  Particularly out...

Junior employees who spent part of their school years isolated from peers have found it harder to adapt to work environment Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. and PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd. are giving extra coaching to their youngest...