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Brendan Caldwell, president and chief executive officer, Caldwell Investment Management FOCUS: North American large cap stocks MARKET OUTLOOK: Making predictions about the future is difficult in the best of times and especially challenging in the c...

U.S. stocks tumbled into the close, wrapping up their first losing quarter since the pandemic bear market, as Treasuries also pared the worst losses in at least five decades.  Moves in most financial markets were muted on the final day of a quarter that br...

Jason Mann, co-founder and chief investment officer at EHP Funds FOCUS: North American equities MARKET OUTLOOK: It’s been a volatile quarter for markets overall with the double whammy of a hawkish U.S. Fed, and the invasion of Ukraine. Bond markets h...

U.S. equities advanced in the final minutes of trading and Treasury yields surged Friday as a solid U.S. jobs report buttressed the Federal Reserve’s case to use aggressive interest-rate hikes to tackle inflation. The S&P 500 ended higher after earlier flu...

GameStop Corp. shares rose 15 per cent in premarket trading and were on course to open at the highest level this year after the video-game retailer announced plans for a stock split, fueling a rally in fellow so-called meme stocks.  GameStop became the lat...

The surge in oil prices has fueled a rally in Canadian stocks this year which strategists say still has room to run.  The S&P/TSX Composite Index has gained 3.1 per cent, outperforming the S&P 500 by more than 8 percentage points. That’s the widest outperf...

Stan Wong, portfolio manager at Scotia Wealth Management FOCUS: North American large caps and ETFs MARKET OUTLOOK: After falling nearly 15 per cent to start the year, market volatility has eased somewhat, and the S&P 500 Index has bounced nine per ce...

Hedge funds distrust it, a clutch of strategists say it’s doomed, and the Federal Reserve probably wishes it would stop. But a fearsome stock market rally that has been giving prognosticators fits is refusing to go away.   A final-hour surge Friday salvage...

Investors in Russia’s sovereign bonds are looking further down the horizon as Vladimir Putin’s government navigates the fallout of international sanctions in order to stave off default. A carve-out in U.S. measures against Russia has allowed overseas bondh...

Financial markets began the week with modest moves across assets as investors assessed the latest central bank commentary and developments in Ukraine. Tech shares drove gains in American stocks, powered by Twitter Inc. The social media company surged as mu...