Table of Contents Market Context What Happened Why It Matters Sector Breakdown Risks to Watch What to Watch Next Final Outlook Market Context Canada’s central bank has not raised interest rates in about three years, and it appears poised to end that streak. An oil price shock has complicated the bank’s long hold at 2.25%,…
Table of Contents Market Context What Happened Why It Matters Sector Breakdown Risks to Watch What to Watch Next Final Outlook Market Context Canada’s economy is balancing three pressures at once: higher energy prices, a trade conflict with its largest partner, and a central bank trying to hold steady in between. Growth has been uneven,…
Table of Contents Market Context What Happened Why It Matters Sector Breakdown Risks to Watch What to Watch Next Final Outlook Market Context Canada’s economy is being pulled in two directions. Inflation is stubborn, helped along by high energy prices, while the labour market has weakened. That mix makes the Bank of Canada’s job unusually…
Table of Contents Market Context What Happened Why It Matters Sector Breakdown Risks to Watch What to Watch Next Final Outlook Market Context Canada’s economic outlook on October 8 is defined by a specific tension that Investing.com’s October 7 pre-market analysis captured with unusual directness: “Policymakers are keen to corral inflation, which has been hovering…
Table of Contents Market Context What Happened Why It Matters Sector Breakdown Risks to Watch What to Watch Next Final Outlook Market Context Canada’s economic picture on October 6 has been transformed in less than three weeks by a single piece of U.S. data. The Federal Reserve’s October rate-hike probability has collapsed from approximately 87%…
Table of Contents Market Context What Happened Why It Matters Sector Breakdown Risks to Watch What to Watch Next Final Outlook Market Context September 2026 will be studied in Canadian economic and financial market history as one of the most concentrated sequences of macro shocks absorbed in a single calendar month. The Federal Reserve’s unanimous…
Table of Contents Market Context What Happened Why It Matters Sector Breakdown Risks to Watch What to Watch Next Final Outlook Market Context September 30, 2026 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation — a federal statutory holiday marking Canada’s commitment to acknowledging the lasting impact of residential schools on First Nations, Métis, and…
Table of Contents Market Context What Happened Why It Matters Sector Breakdown Risks to Watch What to Watch Next Final Outlook Market Context September 29, 2026 is one of those rare calendar dates that is simultaneously an economic inflection point and a financial market test. Today, Trump’s expanded tariff schedule — imposing 50% duties on…
Table of Contents Market Context What Happened Why It Matters Sector Breakdown Risks to Watch What to Watch Next Final Outlook Market Context Canada’s economic narrative for the week of September 22 has been defined by the UN General Assembly in New York — a forum that typically generates diplomatic and policy news tangential to…
Table of Contents Market Context What Happened Why It Matters Sector Breakdown Risks to Watch What to Watch Next Final Outlook Market Context Canada’s economic outlook enters the week of September 22 having absorbed the Federal Reserve’s September 16 rate hike while simultaneously confronting new dimensions of the Canada-U.S. trade war that are extending beyond…
Table of Contents Market Context What Happened Why It Matters Sector Breakdown Risks to Watch What to Watch Next Final Outlook Market Context Canada’s economy entered September 17 with a new and defining variable: the U.S. Federal Reserve has raised interest rates for the first time in three years, and the dot-plot that accompanies the…
Table of Contents Market Context What Happened Why It Matters Sector Breakdown Risks to Watch What to Watch Next Final Outlook Market Context Canada’s economy faces, this week, the most concentrated convergence of simultaneous structural pressures in 2026. Four forces are landing together with a precision that the Bank of Canada, Finance Canada, and Canadian…
Table of Contents Market Context What Happened Why It Matters Sector Breakdown Risks to Watch What to Watch Next Final Outlook Market Context Canada’s economic situation on September 10 requires investors to simultaneously hold a domestic story of genuine strength and a forward-looking picture of escalating structural risk. The strength: Q2 2026 GDP came in…
Table of Contents Market Context What Happened Why It Matters Sector Breakdown Risks to Watch What to Watch Next Final Outlook Market Context Canada’s economy faces a rare concentration of simultaneous structural risks this week, and Tuesday’s market session served as a real-time pricing event for all of them at once. The three dominant forces…
Table of Contents Market Context What Happened Why It Matters Sector Breakdown Risks to Watch What to Watch Next Final Outlook Market Context Today is not just the first day Canadian markets are open after Labour Day. It is the day that the most significant trade policy escalation in Canada’s modern economic history took legal…
