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On Wednesday I was doing my usual scan of the daily investment news. After reading this article from CNBC you could have knocked me over with a feather. Here is the key excerpt: Futures trading now indicates an 80% chance of a rate cut by January 2020, according to the CME’s FedWat...

Every breath you take Every move you make Every bond you break Every step you take I'll be watching you - The Police Imagine it, money made from nothing except a keystroke, a wand waved by an "independent" central banker, a computer is some small room where some clerk hits the ...

People need to stop calling the conflict between the U.S. and China a trade war because that term is misleading. It is an ideological war of comparable powers in a small world. In other words, it is not nearly as much about trade as it is about 1) two different approaches to life that extend t...

Judging by several key economic indicators, it's reasonable to assume that inflation will remain steady at a moderate pace. US GDP growth in the first quarter quickened to a solid 3.2% increase and the labor market expanded at a strong pace in April . Later this year, the expansion will bec...

Donald Trump continued to do his favourite thing this week…hanging out on Twitter. We're supposed to believe he has the Chinese on the run in trade negotiations. But look around wherever you are right now, Dear Reader. Whether you're at home…in your place of work…dining ...

What happened last week. What we're watching for next week. The market has taken a hit lately. Should we be worried? A look at the data might help. Chart of the Week - The Treasury Yield Curve The Treasury yield curve has inverted again. This indicator has a nearly perfect record...

Perhaps it shouldn't come as a surprise. After all, during the first quarter of this year, several key banks announced they had had enough. Goldman Sachs (GS), Nomura (NMR), Credit Suisse (CS), as well as others, they all broadcast cuts to key operations. The FICC stuff, or bond trading to...

President Trump has declared he will extend tariffs of 25% on all America's imports of Chinese goods. China is responding with tariff increases of its own. The consequences of this action and reaction will be to kick-start higher monetary inflation in America and an economic slump. This articl...

The U.S. and China vow to dig in their heels as simmering trade tensions between the two countries risk boiling over into an all-out trade war. Kim Parlee speaks with Scott Colbourne , Managing Director at TD Asset Management, about the potential economic impact of tit-for-tat tariffs ...

Let's start with the good news: while many worry indicators are rising today, along with the decline in stocks, the US dollar is weaker. It will be hard to declare if a risk-off environment has fully gripped the markets without a meaningful surge in the safe-haven dollar (see figure 4), which ...