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Governments are going to have to address sluggish productivity growth. Either that or get turfed at the pollsLast week, I summed up 2023 as a year of poor economic performance, with high interest rates, declining real per capita GDP and shortages of housing...

Payroll taxes, carbon taxes and excises are all going up. And Ottawa won't extend the Jan. 18 deadline for paying back COVID loansBy Brianna Solberg We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other...

FP Outlook 2024: Here are the key headwinds, tailwinds and sectors investors should be watchingA lot of the outlooks Canadians read are about stocks down south, many focused on whether the bulk of them will catch up to the Magnificent Seven megacaps that hav...

  A banner year for stocks is drawing to an end, with the market near all-time highs amid the artificial-intelligence exuberance and dovish Federal Reserve wagers. In the run-up to the final closing bell of 2023, the Nasdaq 100 wavered — while still set...

Setting aside money for worthy causes can be a challenge, but one option that's gaining momentum both gives back and offers a good return on investment. Community bonds pay out interest, and eventually return the initial capital, in the same way as more co...

The price of gold reached a record high this month and a veteran gold watcher expects the precious metal to surge even higher in 2024. Gold reached US$2,135 per ounce on Dec. 3. As of Thursday, the price of gold was $2,075.39, or roughly 14 per cent higher...

The U.S. technology sector was hot in 2023, Canada’s was hotter. An investor frenzy for artificial intelligence stocks propelled U.S. tech-heavy benchmarks to market-besting returns this year. But tech stocks in Canada’s S&P/TSX Composite are poised to top...

Canada's main stock index retreated slightly on Thursday after hitting a 20-month high the day before, while a pair of reports held back growth in U.S. markets as well as north of the border. The S&P/TSX Composite Index fell 86.53 points, 0.41 per cent, to...

Peter Hodson: We try not to make predictions, but investors seem to love them, so here are 5 for 2024Making public market predictions is a bit of a mug’s game. Any market/economic prediction is, at best, a guess (note that we did not even say educated guess...

Jamie Golombek: Taxpayers who inadvertently overcontribute to their TFSA face a hefty penalty taxReviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on...