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Economic Indicators
It may come as no surprise, but 2010 was a very strong year for commodity prices. How strong? The Scotiabank Commodity Price Index, which tracks the price of 32 commodities, surged 17.8% on the year. The index capped the year with a hefty month-over-month gain of 5.5% in December. Since the cyclical low, reached in […]
By Steven Lamb |January 27, 2011
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The U.S. economy is strengthening and will set the tone for the global investment landscape in 2011, according to the chief economist of Laurentian Bank. “Two significant events occurred at the end of 2010 that generated significant momentum for the American economy,” says Carlos Leitao, pointing to the second wave of quantitative easing and the […]
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Industry
If you needed reassurance that Canadians do, in fact, need financial advice, it’s here. Despite a dominant belief that now is a good time to invest, Canadians are wary of entering the market. A new survey commissioned by Franklin Templeton Investments finds that bullish sentiment outweighs bearish sentiment by a ratio of 4-to-1. Yet more […]
Having climbed the wall of worry in 2010, the North America equity market is looking at a promising year ahead where new opportunities abound. Several specific factors are expected to produce positive returns for equities, so stay the course, said Jeffery Tory, chairman GBC Asset Management and portfolio manager at Pembroke Management Limited. “It was […]
By Vikram Barhat |January 26, 2011
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U.S. President Barack Obama’s state of the union address on Tuesday night included strongly worded promises to expand current commitments on investment in infrastructure and scientific innovation, which could provide opportunities for Canadian firms, according to Paul Taylor, CIO at BMO Harris Private Banking. “We’ve begun rebuilding for the 21st century, a project that has […]
By Dean DiSpalatro |January 26, 2011
This is the final installment of a three-part report on IHS Global Insight’s discussion on the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis. It covers IHS chief European and U.K economist Howard Archer’s assessment of the economic situation in the U.K., and IHS senior economist Timo Klein’s look at Germany’s prospects as the Eurozone’s key growth driver. Top […]
By Dean DiSpalatro |January 25, 2011
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Canadian advisors are moving away from gold and increasingly looking to stocks for higher returns, BetaPro Management’s Q1 2011 Advisor Sentiment Survey reveals. The BetaPro survey, based on responses from over 100 Canadian investment advisors, shows a massive plunge in bullish sentiment on gold stocks, “despite the fact that [they] delivered returns of more than […]
By Staff |January 25, 2011
Liquidity flows into emerging markets as the receding economic tide continues to expose the financial system of the developed world. From a macro-economic perspective, the U.S. and Europe are beset by low growth relative to the rest of the global market, said Jeffery Urbina, principal of William Blair & Company, a Chicago-based investment firm. “In […]
By Vikram Barhat |January 24, 2011
GMP Investment Management has launched a new limited partnership fund based on Canada’s restructured asset backed commercial paper, the assets at the heart of the 2007 ABCP crisis. GMPIM has traded over $2 billion (face value) in restructured ABCP through its GMP Diversified Alpha Master Fund since April of 2008, and the new Canadian ABCP […]
By Staff |January 21, 2011
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This is the second of a three-part report on IHS Global Insight’s discussion on the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis. Economic growth in Europe will be sluggish and uneven in 2011, according to Howard Archer, chief European and U.K economist for IHS Global. In a recent webcast, he pointed to the slowdown in the third quarter […]
By Dean DiSpalatro |January 21, 2011
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