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Source: BNN Bloomberg July 16, 2022

A short seller's life upended: Carson Block questions future

Carson Block was on a Delta flight to New York when he felt blood pooling on his seat. It’s a tale the famous, filter-free founder of trading firm Muddy Waters Capital launches into to make a point about misdoings among short sellers, the subject of a vast...

Source: BNN Bloomberg July 16, 2022

TSX ends volatile week 3% lower as investors sour on banks

Canada’s benchmark index closed higher Friday but it wasn’t enough to pull the S&P/TSX Composite Index out of a weekly loss as the heavyweight financial subsector buckled under souring investor sentiment. The Canadian benchmark index closed 65.39 points hi...

Market Call Source: BNN Bloomberg July 16, 2022

Zachary Curry's Top Picks: July 15, 2022

Zachary Curry, director and portfolio manager, Greenrock Capital Partners FOCUS: North American large caps MARKET OUTLOOK: There has definitely been no shortage of doom and gloom headlines over the past six months. While we agree that the overall m...

Source: BNN Bloomberg July 16, 2022

Chaos is becoming the rational base case in market ruled by fear

Ask paid stock forecasters what the market will do next, and the answers aren’t reassuring. Anything from plunge 12 per cent to jump 32 per cent, say S&P 500 strategists tracked by Bloomberg, among the widest ranges on record. Such a breadth of outcomes is...

Source: BNN Bloomberg July 16, 2022

Private equity deals slow in Canada, signalling risks ahead

Canadian private equity firms pulled back on deal making in the first half of 2022, according to recent data from industry tracker PitchBook, with experts attributing the slowdown to economic factors such as rising interest rates and inflation.     The down...

Source: BNN Bloomberg July 16, 2022

The complex and sometimes controversial task of counting how far a dollar goes

It used to be said that a penny saved was a penny earned, but rising prices helped push out the penny years ago, and with inflation now running at well over seven per cent, it’s eating into every nickel and dime. So while inflation is clearly happening, ac...

Source: BNN Bloomberg July 16, 2022

The Week Ahead: Canadian inflation data; Earnings from Netflix, Twitter

Monday, July 18 Notable data: Canadian housing starts Notable earnings: Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, IBM Tuesday, July 19 Notable data: U.S. housing starts and building permits Notable earnings: First Horizon, Johnson & Johnson, Netfli...

Source: BNN Bloomberg July 15, 2022

Credit managers say defaults on track to rise on four continents

Credit defaults are on track to rise in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, according to a survey by the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers, as the risk of global recession mounts. The economic slump is likely to occur later thi...

Source: BNN Bloomberg July 15, 2022

Bond investors bet the recession trade is just getting started

For all the volatility whipsawing the US bond market, traders are showing increasing confidence that the alarm bells warning of a recession will only get louder. The jump in consumer prices in June by another four-decade high reinforced the near-certainty...

Source: BNN Bloomberg July 15, 2022

Loonie falls to 20-month low after Bank of Canada rate hike

The Bank of Canada's largest interest rate hike in 24 years caused the loonie to drop to a 20-month low as investors feared the U.S. Federal Reserve would mirror the full percentage point hike in two weeks. The Canadian dollar dropped to a low of 75.62 cen...