Overview: A warning from China's top banking regulator about the frothiness of foreign markets appeared to blunt the knock-on effect of yesterday's largest rise in the S&P...
One year on from when lockdowns began in the west, specialists reflect on how these two fields have responded to the crisis.
Just when we can finally see the end of lockdown and life possibly returning to some sort of normal, we have a flurry of rumours that...
US Life Expectancy In 2020 Saw Biggest Drop Since WWII It’s already known that 2020 was the deadliest year in US history, with deaths topping 3MM...
Asian markets appear to be taking a breather this morning, having led the global equity recovery yesterday. US markets found their mojo again overnight, with a...
Australia, by contrast, now that’s becoming a proper bond rout. While the country’s central bank clings to its yield curve “control” fantasy, the long end of...
"U.S. Excess Savings Will Be A Massive Economic Boost From 2Q" Submitted by Christophe Barraud U.S. personal incomes soared in January as Americans received another batch...
Dems Ditch Minimum Wage Tax Scheme To Fast-Track $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Senate Democrats are ditching a proposal to use tax code to penalize corporations which don't...
Key Events This Busy Week: Payrolls, PMIs And Barrage Of Fed Talking Heads While last week’s price action was all about bonds with little focus on...
Overview: Equities and bonds jump back. Most Asia Pacific markets advanced 1.5-2.5% after the regional MSCI benchmark dropped 3.65% before the weekend and 5.3% last week. The...
The pandemic did not change the trajectory of where the restaurant industry was headed, but it did force years of change in a short period. Restaurants...
First Robo-AI Painter To Debut At London Museum A robotic artist called Ai-Da, developed by the University of Oxford and engineers at the University of...
Higher yields on long-term U.S. Treasury bonds spooked investors this week, sending the S&P 500 down 2.5%. Utility and Consumer Discretionary stocks led the way lower,...
President Joe Biden scored his first legislative win as the House of Representatives passed his $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package early Feb. 27, though Democrats face...
Artificial Intelligence Takes Over Drive-Thru Orders At This Fast-Food Restaurant Today, the warning is that no low-skilled job is safe from being displaced by automation and...
"A New World Altogether" - Global Airlines Set To "Go Live In March" With COVID 'Passports' Imagine a world where the ability to travel on a...
You can get whiplash, trying to follow the market fluctuations these days. Volatility rules for now, as investors are pulling out of Big Tech – a...
27% Of All Household Income In The US Now Comes From The Government Following today's release of the latest Personal Income and Spending data, Wall Street...
Protecting jobs that will be lost anyway is money that could be spent on building the green economy.
CALGARY – Alberta Finance Minister Travis Toews said the country’s largest oil-producing province would consider new sources of revenue “down the road,” after the most recent...
Protecting jobs that will be lost anyway is money that could be spent on building the green economy.
Another 1.2 million people applied for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits last week, including 730,000 people who applied for regular state UI and 451,000 who applied for...
The US dollar weakened on greater confidence in the broader financial markets as the government reported initial jobless claims falling to their lowest levels in three months. A renewed rally in the equities arena, surging Treasurys, and positive...
Tech Tumbles As Yields Surge, Meme Stocks Explode It's not just the surge in meme stocks that is a case of deja vu all over again:...
Is Hyperinflation In The Horizon? Authored by Tuomas Malinen via GnSEconomics.com, From time-to-time historically, national authorities have resorted to financing by their central bank to cover...
Overview: After several attempts, the euro has pushed above $1.22, and the Australian dollar has surpassed $0.8000 as the greenback remains under broad pressure against the...
The Ontario provincial government announced a moratorium on ending foster care at age 18 during the coronavirus pandemic, but this is due to end on March...
Is the bull market about to take a long breather? Not according to Goldman Sachs. In fact, the firm believes the bull market has a long...
The COVID-19 pandemic and renewed public-health restrictions meant to contain it knocked Canadian employment back to summer levels in January, although an increase in total hours...
In January 2021, Canada shed over 200,000 jobs, mostly in Ontario and Quebec. This week on Down to Business, Craig Alexander, chief economist at Deloitte Canada,...