Investment Strategy - July 2024

Most people tend to be rational and value conscious. Case in point, Costco, a favourite retailer of ours, has built an empire by providing great quality products at excellent prices – consumers clearly like that business model....

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Global Markets Commentary - 2024 at the Half: A Good Time for Investors

The first half of 2024 has delivered solid equity market results. Bond yields have been volatile; the Canadian bond market posted a small year-to-date loss. A typical well-diversified Canadian balanced investor is sitting with a total return in the m...

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What does cooling inflation mean for the markets?

No one ever thinks they’d find themselves rooting for an economic slowdown, but that’s what some investors found themselves doing earlier in the year as they longed for some relief from runaway inflation....

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Commentary from Our Chief Economist

 

 Doug PorterDouglas Porter
 
Chief Economist, BMO Capital Markets


Douglas Porter has over 30 years of experience analyzing global economies and financial markets. As Chief Economist at BMO Financial Group, he oversees the macroeconomic and financial market forecasts and co-authors the firm’s weekly flagship publication, Focus. As a respected commentator on economic and financial trends, he is regularly quoted in the national press and often interviewed on radio and television. 

For Doug’s latest views on the economy, read his commentary Talking Points