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By Barry Schwartz, Chief Investment Officer As the world slowly begins to reopen, market participants are betting that the worst of the Covid-19 crisis is behind us. As a result, North American stock markets picked up in May where April left off. We have come a long way from the worst l...
SPDR Solactive Canada ETF (NYSEARCA: ZCAN ) - $0.7592 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 2.98% as of May 28. Payable Jun 08; for shareholders of record Jun 02; ex-div Jun 01. More news on: SPDR Index Shares Funds - SPDR Solactive Canada ETF, Dividend News, News on ETFs, ,
By Kurt Reiman, Daniel Donato Canadian stocks have made an impressive recovery off the late March lows, leaving the market susceptible to a slower reopening and earnings recovery than is currently reflected in estimates. We therefore favor defensive factor attributes, such as minimum vola...
As Canadian banks begin reporting their second-quarter earnings this week (for February through April), Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) was first on deck with a 39% drop in profits and a 111% increase in loan loss provisions. Since business lockdowns and layoffs only surged in the latter half of M...
With the Canadian TSX today virtually unchanged from its April 2008 peak, even the most steadfast buy and hold investors have reaped zero capital gains over more than 12 years of risk and just 1.7% annually since the prior cycle peak in July 2000. Those who bought GICs and government bonds ove...
In this FTSE Russell Product Insight, we profile a new index series - the FTSE Canada NHA MBS 975 Index - which is designed to measure the performance of Canada's mortgage-backed securities ((MBS)) market, an important sector of the investment opportunity set in Canada. We summarize the key ch...
By David Baskin The COVID-19 pandemic is upending a lot of assumptions and giving forecasters fits as they try to assess what life is going to look like going forward. One area that is of interest to us as investors is the relative value of the Canadian dollar against the US dollar. High o...
By Kurt Reiman, Daniel Donato Canadian tech's share of the equity market has grown, while energy and other resources sectors have dwindled. But Canada's sector compositional shift to tech is still nascent. Kurt and Daniel discuss the importance of looking globally for secular-growth theme...
The Canadian housing market has not been immune from the economic impact of COVID-19. Kim Parlee talk s with Beata Caranci , Chief Economist , TD Bank Group , about the impact of COVID-19 on the decline in Canada’s housing activities and the outlook for Read mo...
Canada's labor market takes a beating, losing almost 2M jobs in April as non-essential businesses shuttered to slow the spread of COVID-19. More news on: iShares MSCI Canada ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares Canadian Dollar Trust ETF, JPMorgan BetaBuilders Canada ETF, Global news and forex, Ne...