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"Canada continues to slide down the world’s competitiveness rankings. The latest Global Competitiveness Index released today by the World Economic Forum (WEF) puts Canada in 14th place overall, down two places from last year and four places lower...

It was a rather eventful third quarter that came to an end last month, with investor sentiment toward the climate between China and the U.S. swaying from optimism to pessimism, and now back to optimism amidst a series of goodwill gestures from both...

The word ‘recession’ was on everybody’s lips last month, as the introduction of new tariffs from both China and the United States combined with a series of weak economic data – especially from Europe – resulted in a recession signal from the U.S....

Canadian banks begin reporting their Q2 2019 earnings this week against an uncertain global economic backdrop.  The sector is down 4.8% so far in August, underperforming the S&P/TSX by a massive 330 basis points (only health Care is worse...