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By Kurt Reiman, Daniel Donato Record-breaking declines in Canadian economic activity failed to interfere with gains in risk assets last week. Kurt and Daniel put all the events of the past week in context and provide some thoughts on the outlook from here. Statistics Canada reported a ...
The Bank of Canada keeps its overnight rate at 0.25%, indicating that's the lowest it will go, and starts two new programs to keep markets functioning. More news on: iShares MSCI Canada ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares Canadian Dollar Trust ETF, JPMorgan BetaBuilders Canada ETF, Global news a...
By Kurt Reiman, Daniel Donato Kurt and Daniel discuss why effective policy coordination is key to supporting a swift economic recovery and avoiding a protracted slowdown, as well as some of the investment implications. Last week's March Labour Force Survey provided the first glimpse ...
Tracing the crash path History repeats itself. This is often heard pretty much everywhere, financial markets being no exception. We look at history to make better decisions about the future as our ingrained optimism reminds us that things get better after every adversity. Canada's S&P/...
Following a week when European and UK regulators urged their banks to end dividend payments, Daniel and Kurt weigh in on the prospects for Canadian bank dividends and the associated risks. Canada's banking regulator, rightly sensing a pickup in loan losses and wanting to avoid a sharp tigh...
Anthony Okolie recaps the biggest news of the day including the latest COVID-19 developments, followed by a conversation between Kim Parlee and Rob Vanderhooft, CIO, TD Asset Management, on the state of the financial markets and the shape of a potential recovery. Original Read mor...
A lot of shorts got covered Monday across most risk assets and yields and this has driven yet another dramatic rebound day. These are expected given the rapid price declines between Feb 19 and March 23. On March 31st, my partner Cory Venable highlighted 2625 to 2725 as a rebound test for the...
A new report from economists at ING (which you can download here ) looks at which economies are being hit hardest by the coronavirus supply chain shock and concludes Canada and Germany are the biggest losers: "Of the world's 10 largest economies, Canada suffers most from the fallout of for...
The past five years have been unkind to the Canadian energy sector and its investors. A hypothetical C$100 investment in the S&P/TSX Composite Index would have grown to just shy of C$120 today even after the sustained market decline of the past several weeks. In contrast, the same inve...
The Bank of Canada's planned large-scale asset purchases are targeted at easing strains in the credit market and not the yield curve, said its governor, Stephen Poloz in a press conference after the central bank made an unscheduled rate cut and announced new asset purchase programs. More...
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iShares today announced its plans to close the following U.S.-listed ETFs on November 2, 2023. The funds will cease trading and no longer accept creation or redemption orders after market close on October 30, 2023. Proceeds of the liquidation are currently scheduled to be sent to shareholders...