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Monday, Dec. 25 Christmas Day, markets are closed in Canada and the U.S. (BNN Bloomberg is dark)  Tuesday, Dec. 26 Boxing Day, Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) is closed (BNN Bloomberg is dark) Notable data: S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Pric...

Financial assets from stocks to bonds notched another winning week as data readouts only reinforced Wall Street’s conviction in early and deep rate cuts next year.  After a choppy low-volume session ahead of the Christmas holiday the S&P 500 notched an eig...

Strength in base metal and utilities stocks helped Canada's main stock index rise more than 150 points on Thursday, while U.S. stock markets also climbed higher. Markets made a partial recovery after slumping the day before, with the TSX falling more than...

Speculators are ramping up their bearish wagers on Canada’s dollar, lifting net short positions to the highest in nearly five years, according to a report from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Leveraged funds boosted their wager against the loonie...

What is sometimes forgotten with RRSP/RRIFs is the real advantage of the tax-free compounding they provideBy Julie Cazzin with Allan Norman We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos fr...

Investors poured $1.3 trillion into cash, dwarfing the $152 billion that flowed into stocksInvestors poured record amounts into cash this year, according to Bank of America Corp. strategists, highlighting how a lot of market participants missed out on the be...

Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General reportedly asking job candidates to attest they haven't signed controversial TMU petitionIn October, billionaire hedge fund chief executive Bill Ackman and other U.S. business leaders demanded that Harvard release the...

Property values in Calgary expected to keep climbing We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, ortap here to see other videos from our team. Posthaste: One of the last bastions of affordable housing in Canada is l...

Early estimate of rebound in final quarter signals possibility of a soft landingThe Canadian economy is on track to avoid back-to-back quarterly contractions, with early data pointing to a slight rebound in the last three months of the year, suggesting a pos...

U.S. stocks bounced higher after Thursday data signaled the economy was headed in the right direction, cementing bets for deeper interest rate cuts from the U.S. Federal Reserve. The Nasdaq 100 index added 0.9 per cent, after Wednesday’s bout of selling kn...