Tag: economy
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Clear As Mud
This morning at 8:30 we got a lot of data out about the health of both the Canadian and US economy. First things first, the US inflation number was out, and it came in right where expected at 2.7%. it was the PCE which is the US Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge. The 2.7% was…
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Wednesday Smashup
What a week it is shaping up to be. Lets take a look at some things that are going on: Scotiabank has changed their slogan. We are all familiar with ” You’re richer than you think”, but now they have changed it to ” There is more to life than more”. Apparently, they couldn’t say…
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Anyone Have A Pinecone?
Will he, or won’t he? That seems to be the million dollar question these days. Will Tiff lower rates on June 5th, or will he continue on the status quo of doing nothing? Never before have I ever seen so many people outside of the Capital Markets world worried and watching a central bank announcement.…
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FIRE!!!!
The Canadian jobs report is out, and it is fire!!! Canada added 90,000 jobs in April – far exceeding the estimates. All in all it was a decent report with a majority of the jobs being in the private sector for a change, although the part time number was a little high, but all in…
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Make it Make Sense
Yesterday saw the release of US GDP for Q1, and it came in well below expectations. Even though GDP came in at 1.6% growth – well below the expectations for 2.6% , bonds yields surged. It may seem odd that after GDP missing expectations to the downside we see bond yields shoot up, right? I…
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Capital, with a Capital C
Way back when we were in grade school the word capital came up a lot. In English class we were taught to make the first letter of a sentence a capital. In Geography we were taught the capital cities of Provinces and States. However, school certainly fell down in teaching all of us about just…
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If It Ain’t Broke
Where I grew up, it was common to hear someone remark ” If it ain’t broke – don’t fix it”. Great point, but I often wondered all of these years – what if it is broke? No one ever seemed to have an answer for that. No matter what your profession, your beliefs, you political…
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Heating Up
Things are heating up….and I don’t mean the weather. Today was quite the day in interest rate circles. The US released their inflation numbers for March, and they were up a lot more than expected. Inflation stopped cooling down, and heated up in March, reversing a trend of easing price pressures. Instantly on the release…
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Pick Your Hard
Years ago when I used to work non stop, a lot of people would tell me all the nice folksy sayings like ” Money ain’t everything” , ” You can’t take it with you”, and the like. I always used to reply with ” Being wealthy is hard, being poor is hard – pick your…
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Kaboom!!
That loud bank you may have heard today was the employment reports being released this morning. While the US exploded, it appears Canada is imploding. The US employment report released at 8:30 this morning blew the doors off, with over 330K jobs created in the month of March. Coming in well above estimates, it confirms…
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