Earlier this week the U.S. Treasury revised its estimate for when Washington will hit the $14.294 trillion statutory limit on government borrowing. The limit is now expected to be reached between April 15 and May 31, having previously been pegged at April 5 to May 31. The announcement was accompanied by the usual dire warnings […]
The Canadian marketplace offers a range of opportunities for impressive returns, but there’s little consensus on where those opportunities lie.
An Angus Reid survey commissioned by Capital One and CanadaHelps shows 65% of Canadians are worried about fraudulent charities, a 14% jump from the results of a 2009 survey. This skepticism, combined with the difficulty of recovering donations made to fraudulent charities, led 53% of respondents to say they are less likely to give to […]
Market uncertainty has pushed retail investors to look for yield rather than returns, which has made fixed income investing expensive and potentially risky.
PricewaterhouseCoopers is advising Finance Minister Jim Flaherty to reduce corporate income tax rates even further.
U.S. President Barack Obama’s state of the union address on Tuesday night included strongly worded promises to expand current commitments on investment in infrastructure and scientific innovation, which could provide opportunities for Canadian firms, according to Paul Taylor, CIO at BMO Harris Private Banking. “We’ve begun rebuilding for the 21st century, a project that has […]
This is the final installment of a three-part report on IHS Global Insight’s discussion on the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis. It covers IHS chief European and U.K economist Howard Archer’s assessment of the economic situation in the U.K., and IHS senior economist Timo Klein’s look at Germany’s prospects as the Eurozone’s key growth driver. Top […]
This is the second of a three-part report on IHS Global Insight’s discussion on the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis. Economic growth in Europe will be sluggish and uneven in 2011, according to Howard Archer, chief European and U.K economist for IHS Global. In a recent webcast, he pointed to the slowdown in the third quarter […]
Two of Fidelity’s top investment strategists recently weighed in on the 2011 outlook for the fund company’s annual ‘Straight Talk on the Markets’ webcast. Getting Aggressive Trevor Greetham, asset allocation director for Fidelity International’s Investment Solutions Group, says the first thing to keep in mind is the economic cycle has become quite short, and increasingly […]
According to Behravesh, the U.S. economy “has picked up steam and is going to grow quite a bit faster in 2011 than we originally thought. We were originally thinking about 2.5%; now we’re thinking it’s going to be over 3%—maybe as much as 3.5%.”