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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Risky Business

Jan 23, 2026 - BMO Private Wealth

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

Jan 16, 2026 - BMO Private Wealth

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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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Level-setting the ABCs of 2026

Jan 09, 2026 - BMO Private Wealth

The Through Line: In 2025, we saw a swarm of trends, concerns and surprises – many of which will follow us into the new year. Some of the themes rhymed with prior periods, while others permanently bent the arc of specific trajectories. Investors may...

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Global Policy Pivots – Transitory or Enduring?

The Through Line: While meant for moving objects, Newton’s first law applies to trends as well – and President Donald Trump clearly qualifies as the outside force prompting pivots in a wide swath of global trade, security and political alliances......

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Stock market selloff – tariffs and then some

Equity markets in both the U.S. and Canada are being rattled by a combination of tariffs and, at least in the case of the U.S., convergent factors including DOGE cuts and softening economic data......

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Breathe

The Through Line: Our natural wiring prompts us toward a desire for instant (and all-too-often hyper emotional) reaction to breaking news......

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Global Markets Commentary: Tariff Tantrum

On March 3, U.S. President Donald Trump followed through with the implementation of a slate of tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods, marking the start of a North American trade war. Canada fired back with retaliatory tariffs......

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Trade War – ACT II

Following days of uncertainty and mixed messages, both from other Cabinet members and from the President himself, President Trump confirmed that 25% tariffs on imports from......

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: When the only way out is through

The Through Line: The old adage that suggests “when one door closes, another opens” is really only half the story. Significant transformation is rarely as easy as moving seamlessly from one chapter to the next - more often, we must traverse......

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Nauseously Optimistic

The Through Line: Companies have navigated a mind-numbing blitz of challenges over the last decade, learning to dodge and weave adeptly......

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Tuning into the 10-Year

The Through Line: Equity markets are often the first place investors look for hints as to how a breaking news item will be perceived. Yet bond markets can serve as a more insightful gauge to measure an event’s potential......

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: The Fundamentals are Fine

The Through Line: Although the year is still in its infancy, markets have already been confronted with several volatility-inducing macro surprises. Determining if or how the developments will bend the fundamental arc of industry or economic......

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Tariff Pause: What’s Next? Economics and Markets Impact

Lingering risk of trade tariffs being introduced by the U.S. and Canadian governments has injected uncertainty into the economic and investment outlook, though there may be long-term opportunities despite financial market......

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