HEWC News and Press, iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Canada From 04/18/21

The global economic recovery is gaining momentum as the world’s two largest economies continue to deliver robust economic readings. US stocks are steadily making fresh record highs and that could continue if Treasury yields take their time in recapturing the highs made at the e...

The Bank of Japan has implemented strict yield curve control in the 2-10-year area of the JGB curve since 2016, in an attempt to prevent financial conditions from tightening and to boost Japanese inflation to 2%. Other government yield curves, where central banks have not targeted any...

The Canadian dollar skips down 0.3% against the U.S. dollar after Bank of Canada Deputy Governor said the central bank will end its quantitative easing programs that it introduced during the COVID-19 crisis to support market functioning.He also said the Bank of Canada hasn't changed its ...

The combined federal-provincial deficit now stands at $473 billion. Early guidance from governments points to a drop in deficit to around $190 billion (8% of GDP). Credit rating agencies will await information around governments' medium-term exit strategies. For further deta...

Demand has spiked new housing starts in Canada to a high not seen since previous cycle tops in 1990 and 2008. Once more, the Canadian economy has become extremely vulnerable to any downturn in the housing sector. Painful as they are for the unprepared, downturns are naturally recu...

Canada's economy added 259K jobs in February, more than triple the 75K expected, as the country started easing lockdown restrictions, according to Statistics Canada's latest labor force survey.That's the biggest gain since November, when a new set of containment measures were put into place, ...

10-year U.S. Treasury yield. Where is it headed? Will high-flying tech and momentum stocks fly high again? Is this a short-lived sector rotation from tech into value? For further details see: The Great Tech Rotation. Will High-Flying Tech Fly High Again?

The Bank of Canada holds steady on rates. Bank of Canada acknowledges economy is growing faster than expected. Orlando: U.S. fiscal stimulus an incremental positive for Canadian economy and outlook. For further details see: BoC Holds Rates Steady, Acknowledges Economy Is...

Sounding similar to the U.S.'s Federal Reserve, the Bank of Canada holds its key policy rate steady and says it will keep it there until its inflation target is sustainably achieved.Continues its quantitative easing program, continuing at a pace of at least C$4B per week.Developing...ETFs: [[...

Sondhi: We expect the current robust sales pace to hold up in the near term. The current unsustainable pace will likely give way to some moderation in the back half of 2021 and early 2022. Sondhi: We expect to see a tapering off in average home price gains in 2022. For furth...