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Markets ended the week on a negative note as U.S. equities faded in the final minutes of trading and Treasuries fell on Friday following declines sparked by the Federal Reserve’s plan for aggressive monetary-policy tightening. The S&P 500 slid, bringing it...

Mike Archibald, vice president and portfolio manager, AGF Investments FOCUS: Canadian equities MARKET OUTLOOK: There is a lot of market uncertainty right now – central bank tightening, global turmoil, worldwide, inflation and supply chain disruptio...

Trying to use stock and bond signals to forecast the economy is never easy. With all the wild swings in markets these days, it risks becoming an exercise in the absurd. Sometimes up, sometimes down, share prices and yield curves are bouncing around so much...

Stocks and bonds retreated Monday as investors focused on inflation and the impact of policy tightening by central banks. All major groups in the S&P 500 fell, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 lost more than 2 per cent. Ten-year Treasury yields climbed thro...

Crude oil prices fell to their lowest level since before the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a spike of COVID-19 cases in China pulled down the energy sector and Canada's main stock index to start the trading week. China's zero-tolerance policy toward COVID...

John O'Connell, CEO and CIO, Davis Rea FOCUS: North American large cap stocks MARKET OUTLOOK: Investors continue to reassess the prospects for economic growth as central banks begin the process of allowing interest rates to reflect economic reality...

Traders are shunning technology stocks amid mounting risks from soaring Treasury yields and hawkish commentary from the Federal Reserve.  The Nasdaq 100 Stock Index sank more than 2 per cent Monday, adding to losses sustained last week that have erased ove...

Stocks closed down as a surge in oil above US$100 a barrel reignited inflation worries, while big banks dropped ahead of the start of the financial earnings season on Wednesday. The S&P 500 erased gains that were earlier driven by speculation that price pr...

Canada’s dollar has scope to make up ground against some of its biggest commodity-related peers if the country’s central bank provides an appropriate shot of hawkishness this week. While the currency has received some support from higher oil and resource p...

Brian Acker, president, CEO, and chief investment strategist at Acker Finley FOCUS: North American large cap stocks MARKET OUTLOOK: When I was on BNN Bloomberg last March 17th, I suggested the markets, especially the U.S., would rally off the then...