It was a mixed holiday shortened week for major North American benchmarks with Canada’s TSX posting decent gains and our counterparts to the South seeing small losses......
What a dizzying week… The past five days have truly been one for the record books. Monday saw an incredibly 8% whipsaw in major benchmarks on “false” reports that the Trump administration was holding off on reciprocal tariffs for 90 days......
Despite extreme levels of pessimism, fear, and elevated rhetoric to say the least, the S&P/TSX has climbed the proverbial wall of worry and is now up 1.5% year to date, outperforming the S&P 500, which is down 3.2% as of mid-day March 27th......
The stock market remained volatile over the last week, with the S&P 500 briefly dipping into correction territory, down 10.1% from its recent highs. This was the first 10%+ drawdown in the S&P 500 since October 2023, nearly 1.5 years ago......
They say a picture says a thousand words. So in the wake of the ongoing volatility and uncertainty in markets these past four weeks, we are going to spare our readers a 24,000 word op-ed on a Friday afternoon......
Here we go again. Again, sorta. U.S. President Trump’s executive order imposing a 25% tariff on all non-energy imports from Canada and a 10% tariff on energy imports is now, somewhat, effective......
Despite the big macro headlines, it was a somewhat uneventful week for equities, which in fact quietly saw a couple new all-time-highs out of the S&P500. We talked at length in our last week’s edition about the ongoing earnings season.....
Global markets are certainly embracing the fluid backdrop with open arms as major indices broadly finished higher on the week as sentiment improved after investors got more certainty around President Donald Trump’s tariff plans......
Following a 2.5% decline in December, the S&P 500 posted a gain of 2.7% during January with the index closing the month only 1.3% from a record level. However, the path proved to be a bumpy one......
The S&P 500 shook off its early January malaise the past few weeks driven mainly by a cooler-than-expected CPI report and strong bank earnings as the index reversed the 4.3% slide that had been in place since early December......