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Canada’s benchmark stock index finished the trading day up triple digits as financial and industrials all helped lifted the index higher. The S&P/TSX Composite Index closed up 342.09 points at 18,937.71. Shares of West Fraser Timber Company Ltd. soared...

Investors slashed their exposure to risk assets to levels not seen even during the global financial crisis in a sign of full capitulation amid a “dire” economic outlook, according to Bank of America Corp.’s monthly fund manager survey. Global growth and pr...

Christine Poole, chief executive officer and managing director at GlobeInvest Capital Management  FOCUS: North American large-cap stocks MARKET OUTLOOK: The pullback this year has been the result of compression in the price-to-earnings multiple for...

Kevin Carmichael: Bottom line — a soft landing is getting harder and harder to execute Statistics Canada’s consumer price index, the gauge the Bank of Canada uses to guide interest rates, surged to 8.1 per cent in June, the biggest year-over-year i...

The only question now is whether Bank of Canada hikes 50 or 75 bps in September, says economist The Canadian economy saw the pace of inflation hit 8.1 per cent year over year in June, the fastest since January 1983. Despite the latest reading comin...

US stocks turned sharply lower after Apple Inc.’s plans to slow hiring added to investor worries that the Federal Reserve’s campaign against inflation will drop the economy into a recession. The S&P 500 extended losses in the last hour of trading, after co...

The S&P/TSX Composite Index kicked off the week with a triple-digit gain, bucking the North American trend as all major U.S. markets reversed course midway through the trading day to end in the red. The Canadian index closed 201.17 points higher, or 1.09 p...

Barry Schwartz, chief investment officer and portfolio manager, Baskin Wealth Management FOCUS: North American large-cap stocks MARKET OUTLOOK: I don’t blame any investor for being nervous in this environment. We are facing slowing growth, a possib...

One of Wall Street’s biggest bears says US stocks are likely to face more declines even if the economy manages to avoid a recession. “Counter-trend rally may continue, but make no mistake, we don’t believe this bear market is over, even if we avoid a reces...

Shares of Bitcoin miners are outperforming the largest digital currency by a wide margin as demand for a way to gain exposure to the sector without actually buying the token rebounds.  While Bitcoin rose as much as 7.5 per cent, shares of top miners such a...