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Hold onto your hats and grab your anti-nausea meds. If David Rosenberg is right, the latest correction isn’t over, not by a long shot. Rosenberg — called “the man with crystal balls” by Gluskin Sheff & Associates, the firm that appointed him chief economist and strategist earlier this year — says the current market rebound […]
By Kate McCaffery |September 23, 2009
4 min read
The Canadian economy will outperform the rest of the G7 next year, but there’s little cause for celebration, according to a report from the economics team at CIBC. Domestic strength will be counterbalanced by soft export markets, resulting in an anemic growth rate of just 2%. Government stimulus will play a role in the recovery, […]
By Steven Lamb |September 11, 2009
2 min read
Chalk one up for John Maynard Keynes. Massive government stimulus has had the desired result, spurring economic growth around the world and ending The Great Recession of 2008-2009, according to an economic report from Scotiabank. The world’s largest centrally planned economy, China, is set to lead the global recovery, with the U.S. — home to […]
By Steven Lamb |September 2, 2009
After 10 consecutive months of decline, Canada’s gross domestic product showed a glimmer of hope in June with a 0.1% rise in GDP. And there’s plenty of evidence that growth continued through July and August, according to report by Dr. Sherry Cooper, chief economist of BMO Capital Markets. Canada’s economy fell at an annualized rate […]
By Rayann Huang |August 31, 2009
The Bank of Canada should rethink its inflation targets, focusing on maintaining stable prices at a much lower level, according to a study released by the C.D. Howe Institute entitled How Flexible Can Inflation Targeting Be? Suggestions for the Future of Canada’s Targeting Regime. Hailing the Bank’s inflation-targeting regime as a success, Thorsten V. Koeppl, […]
By Steven Lamb |August 27, 2009
3 min read
It is becoming increasingly popular to declare the recession dead, but that does not mean North Americans will enjoy a massive economic upswing any time soon, according to analysts at CIBC. Slow growth in both the U.S. and Canada will keep inflation in check, allowing the Bank of Canada to maintain its easy-money policy of […]
By Steven Lamb |August 25, 2009
What was initially dubbed “The Great Recession” appears to be drawing to a close, about nine months after it was first recognized. The U.S. economic downturn, which cascaded around the globe, officially began in December 2007, but that start date was only announced a year later. It has been the longest and deepest recession since […]
By Steven Lamb |August 24, 2009
Rallying stock markets and the nascent economic recovery have renewed concerns about the valuation of the U.S. dollar. There is a growing perception that the greenback will likely see a pullback in value as things improve — which will impact the foreign holdings of Canadian investors. The U.S. dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency […]
By Mark Noble |August 20, 2009
5 min read
Canadians who recently find themselves involuntarily unemployed may take comfort in the fact that the average duration of unemployment is fifteen weeks, according to a new report from CIBC World Markets. This is a marked improvement to the 1991 recession when the average duration of unemployment was 20 weeks. Moreover, the current unemployment period is […]
By Rayann Huang |August 19, 2009
The recession is not over but investor pessimism from professional money managers appears to have passed. According to the August edition of the Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers, more than three quarters of the world’s fund managers believe the global economy is poised to strengthen over the next year, marking the highest level of […]
By Mark Noble |August 19, 2009
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