Weekly Strategy Perspectives: What Could Go Right? Reunderwriting the Bull Case

Markets started the week on a shaky note with tariffs and a potential AI/jobs apocalypse dominating the story line....

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Still Nauseously Optimistic

The last 12 months have sprayed a firehose of change at investors, consumers and businesses alike....

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: And the Story Line is…

We’re barely two-thirds of the way into Q4 2025 earnings report season, yet a bevy of market-moving revelations have already surfaced. Traders acted quickly to adjust individual stock/sector prices for potentially revised realities, prompting more......

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Nuggets versus Noise

 Let’s be honest – there aren’t enough adjectives to describe how wild and wooly the headlines have been in the past 12 months....

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Why the economy in 2026 will be more resilient than many think

After a year of seemingly constant market and economic uncertainty, investors might assume we’ll see more of the same this year....

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BMO Nesbitt Burns Global Markets Commentary: January 2026 or 2025 Redux

We generally equate January with a fresh start, but instead the major themes from 2025 carried forward....

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Bonds Really DO Have More Fun

For many of us, stock markets are where the fun is (because they’re growth obsessed and chock full of interesting stories). Bonds, on the other hand, can be tough to wrap our heads and hearts around....

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Risky Business

The Through Line: After an extended period of relative calm, volatility has reasserted itself into capital markets. Fluctuating asset prices are nerve wracking – especially when they happen suddenly or with great velocity. Yet price volatility by its...

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Putting a Sweater on the Octopus – employment paradoxes and paradigms

The Through Line: The wellbeing of the labor market preoccupied commentators, policy makers, Fed watchers and job hunters for much of 2025......

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BMO Nesbitt Burns Global Markets Commentary 2025 Year in Review: Resilience and Feedback

Resilience and feedback and are two words that best sum up 2025. The year may also go down as the “t” year: tariffs, tensions, trade, TACO and Trump all featured prominently......

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Focus is the flagship publication of the BMO Economics team. This weekly publication covers major economic developments, provides updated forecasts, looks ahead to the key events of the upcoming week, and provides detailed insights into key economic issues.
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