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U.S. stocks regained session highs as investors weighed comments from U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on the outlook for higher interest rates. Short-term Treasuries underperformed, extending a flattening in the yield curve. The S&P 500 rose to th...

Christine Poole, CEO and managing director at GlobeInvest Capital Management FOCUS: North American large-cap stocks MARKET OUTLOOK: Equity markets are recalibrating to higher interest rates and valuation multiples are compressing. Inflationary pres...

Amid persistent supply chain problems that has ravaged many industrial firms, it might be worth considering investing in companies such as NFI Group Inc. and Cascades Inc. once there’s visibility on when those manufacturing issues could start easing, accordin...

Teal Linde, manager, Linde Equity Fund FOCUS: North American mid and large-cap stocks MARKET OUTLOOK: Through the latter half of 2020 and all of 2021, investors were amazed by the resilience of the rising stock market despite being in the midst of...

A selloff in cryptocurrencies resumed Monday, with Bitcoin dropping back below US$30,000 with global equity markets remaining under pressure.  The largest cryptocurrency fell as much as 6.2 per cent and was trading at US$29,835 as of 4:54 p.m. in New York....

Stocks rallied at the end of a chaotic week in financial markets, with a little help from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s reassurance that bigger rate hikes would be off the table for now even after the hot inflation readings of the past few days. Fo...

David Driscoll, president and CEO, Liberty International Investment Management  FOCUS: Global stocks MARKET OUTLOOK: In the past five years, stock markets went up too far, too fast, and became well overvalued. The old axiom, “don’t fight the Fed” has...

Another stormy week has left investors groping when it comes to the direction of stocks and bonds. Expecting to be led out of the darkness by Wall Street’s best and brightest may be asking too much, given their performance so far this year. As usually happ...

Stocks rebounded sharply in the final hour of trading, with the S&P 500 almost erasing a selloff that pushed it to the brink of a bear market earlier Thursday. The turnaround came as Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly told Bloomberg...

Apple Inc. shares fell on Thursday, with the stock now about 22 per cent below its January peak as a selloff in technology stocks spreads from more speculative shares to the world’s biggest companies. The stock fell 2.7 per cent to US$142.56 and is trading...