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Less than a year after her country voted to leave the European Union, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May officially put in motion the separation procedure that should wrap up in the spring of 2019....

Central bankers will be the focus of investors’ attention today, as we keep an eye on a speech by Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz starting at 10 a.m. in Oshawa and comments from four...

The week is looking volatile, with the Trump administration’s failure to get its health reforms passed serving as a pretext for generalized profit taking on all stock markets, as well as on the...

The stock market meltdown investors were fearing yesterday ended up not taking place, leaving us even more puzzled regarding the previous day’s sharp pullback. Although all scenarios are on the...

Although the trading day got off to a flying start yesterday for the loonie, with the announcement of stronger-than-expected Canadian Retail Sales in January, our currency quickly reversed course and...

Over the past week, WTI oil has become entrenched in the 48-49 USD/barrel range. Diesel in CAD/L was trading at an attractive technical level with regard to the 200-day average. According to Saudi...

Since it has now been established by FBI Director James Comey that the bureau did not issue any opinion regarding possible meddling by Russia in the presidential election, that President Obama had not...

The G20 summit was held this weekend in Germany, bringing together various finance ministers and central bank governors, who tried put their wisdom to work to help out the world economy. In a sign of...

CANADA: International securities transactions data showed foreign investors increased their holdings of Canadian securities by C$6.2 billion in January. Net buying of bonds (+C$10 billion) easily...

The USD/CAD pair stabilized after the previous day’s sharp drop. Markets are still questioning themselves about the speech that Ms. Yellen gave on Wednesday: with no economic changes in Canada,...

Yesterday morning’s economic news proved to be rather bland, all very close to expectations. Nonetheless, they confirmed the robustness of the U.S. economy though there remains some doubt with...

The appetizer, served at 8:30 a.m.Inflation (Consumer Price Index) in the United StatesS. Retail Sales Existing Home Sales in Canada The main course, served at 2 p.m. The Federal Reserve’s key...

While not much is happening on foreign exchange markets in North America early this week, the United Kingdom took yet another step toward leaving the European Union (EU).Parliament has adopted the...

Last week was marked by a major downturn in WTI oil prices. After oil inventory numbers were released on Wednesday, crude oil dropped to its lowest level in 2017. Analysts had expected an increase of...

Last week was characterized by the worst one-day correction in crude oil prices in 2017 and by job data that outstripped economists’ expectations on both sides of the border. On Friday, the...

The Canadian dollar’s slide was halted Friday by a surprisingly good jobs report. In February, Canada created 105,000 full-time positions! Even with a loss of 95,000 part-time jobs, the net gain...