BBCA News and Press, JPMorgan BetaBuilders Canada ETF From 04/24/19

It has been almost one year since we initiated our first short position in Canada and made known our skepticism of the Canadian housing market (er, bubble) to our investors. Today we look upon the past year's worth of data to see how things have progressed and examine the key metrics we follow...

A decade of ultra-low interest rates and lax lending enabled Canadians to borrow and spend their way into a state of extreme financial fragility. Today, Canadian households are world leaders in terms of average household debt that is 180% of average disposable income (second only to Australian...

Photo Source: REUTERS/Bobby Yip. A photographer takes a picture of an intraday chart of the benchmark Hang Seng Index at a brokerage in Hong Kong. In this issue of Lipper’s U.S. Mutual Funds & Exchange-Traded Products Snapshot we feature a summary of total net assets ((TNA)), ...

At 1.1%, the Canadian savings rate is today near all-time lows, while Canadian debt is at all-time highs, and unemployment is set to move higher. Years of reckless financial policies have driven Canada to the point of hard return. This one is gonna hurt. As observed by Canadian consumer cred...

Ross Clark – US equity markets, and oil. Wolf Richter – Bullish stock market, the automotive sector, collapsing real estate bubbles. Danielle Park – Shorting Canadian banks, TSX Composite Index Larry Reaugh - President & CEO of American Mangan...

How do they measure up against the most splendid housing bubbles in the USA? Oops! In Greater Vancouver, BC, Canada, house prices fell 0.5% in March from February, the eighth month in a row of declines, according to the Teranet-National Bank House Price Index released this morning. It wa...

Off the top let's get my big Canadian bank and home bias out of the way. I am a Canadian who has worked for Canadian banks. I am still an investor in the three largest Canadian banks - Royal Bank of Canada ( RY ), Toronto-Dominion Bank ( TD ) and Scotiabank ( BNS ). I added monies recently whe...

Canadian financial shares make up 38% of the market cap of dividend-paying stocks in the broader TSX composite, which most Canadian equity funds, managers and pensions are benchmarking. Lower credit-cycle exposure in the last two bear markets resulted in 40% and 55% losses (2000-02 and 2008-09...

Canada is "constantly looking at ways to refresh the [tariff] retaliation list [against the U.S.]... to have an even greater impact," Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters, adding to the recent trade tensions taking place across the globe. More news on: Invesco CurrencyShares...