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The Bank of Canada’s monetary policy supporting decades of low interest rates has been a strong tailwind for the Canadian housing market. Coupled with robust demand for all types of housing - driven by demographic trends and ambitious immigration policies, Canadian house prices r ...  Show more

It is often said that when the US sneezes, Canada catches a cold. Economic conditions that appear first in the US are often a precursor to what is experienced in Canada so understanding the impact of rising interest rates, inflation and geopolitics on US real estate markets may p ...  Show more

The big things you need to know: • First, weakness in Homebuilders doesn’t bode well for the recent outperformance of Small Caps. • Second, we’ve continued to see some slippage in earnings sentiment (the rate of upward EPS estimate revisions) for the S&P 500, which has been drive ...  Show more

The Fed delivered a super-sized rate cut to the start of the cycle last week. More likely they go back to smaller 25bp moves if labour data remains resilient. But another large move is not out of the realm of possibility. We think the BoC is on course for 5 straight 25’s but they ...  Show more

Three big things you need to know: First, our survey results, which are bottom-up in nature and driven by domestic policy views, imply that the event is relevant to US equity markets, but perhaps less so than some market participants may believe. For our US analysts, a Republican ...  Show more

The major U.S. equity indexes were all up more than 1% late in Monday’s regular trading session, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite leading the way with a 1.85% gain. Stocks today seem to reflect a strong start to earnings reporting season. According to Bloomberg, 38 of the 48 ...  Show more