BBCA News and Press, JPMorgan BetaBuilders Canada ETF From 05/21/19

One of the subtle issues with recession analysis is defining when they occur. For the United States, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) has managed to become the authoritative source for recession dating, whereas for other countries, the dating process is less clear. In Canada, th...

The Canadian economy is closely tied to the fortunes of the United States; it's neighbor to the south. Canada is a far smaller nation with a total population of only 37.28 million compared to 329 million in the US. However, Canada's total land mass is 3.855 million miles squared compared to 3....

Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz expects Canada's interest rates to resume their rise once headwinds to growth lessen, he told BNN Bloomberg. More news on: Invesco CurrencyShares Canadian Dollar Trust ETF, iShares MSCI Canada ETF, SPDR MSCI Canada Quality Mix ETF, Global news and fo...

Vancouver prices drop. Toronto down 3.7% from peak, flat for 10 months. Winnipeg plunges most since at least 1990. Quebec City flat for six years. In Greater Vancouver, BC, Canada, house prices fell 0.4% in April from March, the ninth month in a row of month-to-month declines, according to...

Most people can agree that the Canadian housing market is overextended—perhaps even a big bubble ready to burst. But as Hedgeye Financials & Housing analyst Josh Steiner explains in the clip above, there is one critical factor contributing to that bubble that has flown under...

"It is their interaction with froth that matters most. How much a housing market adjusts depends on how much froth there is": Poloz Across Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, sales of all types of homes so far this year through April plunged to 6,212 homes, the lowest count since 1986, ...

As Congress returns from recess this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other prominent Democrats have signaled they won’t allow a vote on the Trump administration's U.S.-Mexico-Canada-Agreement. More news on: iShares MSCI Mexico Capped ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares Canadian Dolla...

The Bank of Canada left rates steady in its most recent announcement and removed any reference to future rate increases. The tilt to a more dovish tone came as the Bank downgraded their growth forecast for 2019. Anthony Okolie talks with James Marple, Senior Economist, TD Bank Read more...

The loonie falls 0.6% against the U.S. dollar as Canada's central bank keeps its key interest rate unchanged at 1.75% and now sees H1 growth in Canada slower than it expected in January. More news on: Invesco CurrencyShares Canadian Dollar Trust ETF, iShares MSCI Canada ETF, SPDR MSCI Ca...

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...