The Canadian dollar is down over 1% as the US dollar shows material and broad strength. The emergence of a real possibility of the impeachment and/or removal of the President…
Job creation came to a halt in December as restrictions brought on by surging Covid-19 cases hammered virus-sensitive industries, particularly restaurants and hotels. The total job losses in the month…
The markets brushed off the events in Washington, as we suggested they would in yesterday’s note. So, after three days of relatively wide fluctuations, the Canadian dollar is right back…
The Canadian dollar has traded in an unusually wide range of nearly 2 pennies in the first two trading days of 2021 and it has has fluctuated wildly within that…
Yesterday, the first day of trading for 2021, was an interesting one. After slipping in the morning to near 2 1/2 year lows in the morning, the US dollar regained…
Happy New Year! What will the new year bring in the financial markets? Only time will tell and we have our views which we have shared previously. What we can…
The Canadian dollar is up 0.4% this morning and looks set to finish just below its highest levels since April of 2018. At its lows for the year, at the…
In the final few trading days of the year, the Canadian dollar is making a push towards the two a half year highs at which it traded mid December. It…
The US dollar continues to languish as a sea of optimism pushes up the equity markets further into record territory. Amidst the end of the political drama over the US…
Britain and the European Union finally agreed this morning on a new post-Brexit trading arrangement, more than four years after the U.K. voted to leave the bloc. The announcement, which…