Items that may only interest or educate me …. Canadian economic stats, oil production cutbacks, American jobs cooling, but first …. Last Thursday, Statistics Canada reported the Canadian economy remains strong, adding 34,700 jobs in March, higher than the 12,000 jobs analysts predicted. Employment has been trending upward since September, with March being the seventh […]
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Weekly Update for the week ending March 31, 2023
Items that may only interest or educate me …. Canadian budget, Canadian GDP, US Economic data, latest Silicon Bank chapter, … Prior to releasing the latest budget, the current Canadian government said they would be “fiscally responsible” while at the same time spending a whole lot of your taxpayer dollars on the new green economy […]
Weekly Update for the week ending February 17, 2023
Items that may only interest or educate me …. Canadian inflation data, US inflation data, … Statistics Canada’s latest Canadian Industrial Product Price Index (IPPI), prices that producers in Canada receive as goods leave the plant, reported an increase of 0.4% in January over December, while on a year over year basis, producer prices went […]
Weekly Update for the week ending February 3, 2023
Items that may only interest or educate me …. US interest rates, European interest rates, Huge job growth int the US, Slowing Canadian GDP, Big tech earnings’ misses … As expected, in a unanimous decision by members of the US Federal Reserve System’s (Fed) Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), they increased the US benchmark interest […]
Weekly Update for the week ending January 27, 2023
Items that may only interest or educate me …. Canadian interest rate moves higher, Fed inline for a ‘soft landing,’ looking forward, big tech downsizing…. This past week, as widely anticipated, the Bank of Canada (BoC) raised the Canadian interest rate by 0.25%, bringing the benchmark rate to 4.5%. The BoC also said they are […]
Weekly Update for the week ending January 6, 2023
Items that may only interest or educate me …. TFSAs, green is the new black, the yo-yo market moves…. One of the best things about New Year’s is the opportunity for a fresh slate. In 2022, every sector in the S&P declined, except the Energy sector, as the S&P suffered its worst year since the […]