Weekly Market Commentary

August’s heatwave extended to global equity markets. Good news outweighed bad and even negatives were spun into positives. However, if we are counting headlines, negatives dominated the month......

As we begrudgingly say goodbye to the final week of summer, we thought it would be helpful to highlight some key observations and trends in the market that we have been discussing with clients or that we believe have been flying under the radar......

It was setting up to be a week of divergence for North American benchmarks with Canada’s TSX hitting new all-time-highs throughout the week while our counterparts to South put together a 5-day losing streak that saw major indices retrace......

Summer may be drawing closer to its end, but economic data and corporate earnings kept investors fully engaged this week. The buy-the-dip narrative was in full effect as markets bounced following last week’s weaker than expected data......

Summer temperatures are heating up, and so was the stock market until Friday’s US jobs report and new tariff announcements hit the pause button on a 4-month stock market rally......

Markets continued their march into record territory this week buoyed by fresh economic data reports along with a slew of corporate earnings releases. Quarterly earnings reports released this week have exceeded Wall Street’s expectations......

North American markets were higher on the week with new all-time-highs hit south of the border for the first time since February as we had a de-escalation of the situation in the Middle East and a White House that said......

North American markets were basically flat on the week, but easily within reach of new all-time-highs. All this despite the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. The initial market reaction to the event last Friday......

The TSX saw another week of record highs despite ongoing uncertainty over the economic fallout from the trade war. In fact, since the start of November (just before the U.S. election), the TSX has outperformed both the S&P 500 and the EAFE index......

Global economy – slowing, not cratering. While front-running in US imports benefitted economies outside the US in Q1, a pull-forward in consumption ahead of tariffs may be temporarily boosting US growth in Q2......