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Stephen Takacsy, president, chief executive officer and chief investment officer, Lester Asset Management FOCUS: Canadian stocks MARKET OUTLOOK: Volatility continues to rule capital markets in 2022 due to the aftereffects of the pandemic, including...

Stocks closed well off session lows as comments from Federal Reserve officials brought some relief to investors worried that a more aggressive pace of rate hikes could trigger a recession. The S&P 500 almost erased a slide that topped 2 per cent as Fed Gov...

Canada’s benchmark stock index fell by triple digits Thursday as investors grew increasingly concerned about a looming recession and reacted to negative earnings news from two big American financial services companies. The S&P/TSX Composite Index closed 28...

Canadian bank stocks slid the most in more than two years as the first round of earnings from US lenders weighed on the outlook for the financial sector amid growing fears of a recession. The S&P/TSX Composite Commercial Banks Index, which tracks Canada’s...

Kevin Carmichael: Recession, soft landing may be determined by how much higher interest rates deter business growth plans Taiga Motors Corp. probably deserved better this week. We apologize, but this video has failed to loa...

Stocks finished lower as a shockingly hot US inflation report rattled financial markets, boosting bets the Federal Reserve could get even more aggressive with its belt-tightening campaign. Amid unnerving swings, the S&P 500 failed to hold gains after rever...

Canadian stocks sunk to their lowest point since March 2021 after the Bank of Canada announced its largest interest rate hike since 1998. The S&P/TSX Composite Index dropped as much as 1.6 per cent after the nation’s central bank lifted interest rates by 1...

Canada’s benchmark stock index pared some of its losses but still closed in negative territory in the wake of the Bank of Canada historic full-point interest rate hike Wednesday. The S&P/TSX Composite Index dropped as much as 1.6 per cent immediately after...

The euro has suffered a swift and brutal slump this year, and now it’s crossed a major threshold for the first time in more than two decades: parity with the dollar. The 12 per cent decline is the result of multiple pressures, from the war in Ukraine to an...

Dennis da Silva, managing director and senior portfolio manager, Middlefield Capital Corporation FOCUS: Resource stocks MARKET OUTLOOK: We believe we are in a cyclical bear market which is a function of rising rates and inflation, combined with low...