Gold is also benefitting from inflation concerns, as well as insulation from Trump. Data last week showed underlying inflation is sticky, and expected to rise. So maybe the Fed won’t be dropping rates ...

Canadians aged 18 and older can contribute to a TFSA each year up to the annual maximum. The initial contribution limit in ...

Tomorrow’s inflation report’s expected to be a yawner. Stuck in the mid-2% range. The central bank won’t be jacking or hacking rates for a while. Maybe all year. The housing market will sit on life ...

Time to get real about your personal finances, given what may be coming. We all know the threats. It’s a dodgy world at the moment and the best way to insulate yourself is to either become a nun or a ...

Bad Bunny aside, last week’s Super Bowl was a dud. I should have heeded the prediction-market betting, which early on pegged the Seahawks as a massive favourite, and switched to the Olympics. But a ...

Days ago it was planes. Trump would act to crush our aviation industry. This week it’s bridges. In fact, THE bridge – the Gordie Howe $6 billion masterpiece which leaps over the Detroit River and is ...

Garth will post his Monday commentary as soon as the snow dogs permit.

Imagine Waterloo, Saanich or St. John’s disappearing. Just poof. They all have populations close to 120,000, which is the number of employed people that vanished from the face of our Dominion last ...

Today the Canadian dollar was assaulting the 74-cent level. Oil was up another 1%. Gold added $114 an ounce, surging to $5,295 US. Bitcoin swelled by $700 a thingy. All that because the US president’s ...

The nation’s second-largest but most self-absorbed housing market tanked last month. You can’t blame the auto sector. There isn’t one. You can’t fault a populist, pugilistic, Trump-baiting government ...

There were no rivulets of blood in the gutter on Bay Street this morning. No crimson stains on the foot of fresh snow. Just another Monday of green arrows for a stock market which catapulted investors ...

Last weekend the White House said Canada would see a 100% tariff on, like, everything if we did a deal with China. Trump called Carney our ‘governor’. Yesterday he told reporters, “Canada is not doing ...