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Byline: ROB CARRICK; Staff The falling Canadian dollar is rightly seen as a gauge of international financial market concern about this country's economic prospects. But a weak currency is no [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK; Staff The LWAS strategy for your tax-free savings account is mighty tempting as we head into a new year. That's let's wait and see. So much is [...]

Byline: JOHN RAPLEY Author and academic who divides his time among London, Johannesburg and Ottawa. His books include Why Empires Fall (Yale University Press, 2023) and Twilight of the Money [...]

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate Wednesday by a quarter-point - its third cut this year - but also signalled that it expects to reduce [...]

Byline: DAVID BERMAN; Staff The Bank of Canada has delivered one of the more intriguing trade dilemmas of the year: Should investors take advantage of the tarnished loonie by selling [...]

Byline: KEVIN YIN Contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail and an economics doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley On June 5, Canada became the first G7 nation [...]

Byline: JENNA LEGGE; Staff The Canadian dollar is at risk of extending its recent slump, but some forecasters see a rebound later this year once the U.S. Federal Reserve signals [...]

Byline: PREET BANERJEE Consultant to the wealth management industry with a focus on commercial applications of behavioural finance research If you think inflation and tipping culture are out of control, [...]

Byline: IRENE GALEA; Staff As the Canadian dollar slumps to near five-month lows, exporters are getting a boost while importers such as food suppliers, already battling inflation, are facing more [...]

Byline: JASON KIRBY; Staff While the Bank of Canada may have stopped short of what markets were expecting with its latest interest-rate hike, it remains the most hawkish major central [...]

Byline: BARRY RUEGER; Special to The Globe and Mail When my mother died last year her estate was small: clothing, knickknacks, photos and the small bungalow, in Kelowna, B.C., that [...]

Byline: DAVID BERMAN, Staff Lead The Canadian dollar has been losing ground over the past two months, but don't pin the blame on softer commodity prices, shifting Bank of Canada [...]

Byline: MATT LUNDY, Staff Lead In a typical recession, there is a triedand-true playbook. Incomes go down. Bankruptcies go up. Consumers pull back on major purchases. The services sector holds [...]

Byline: TIM SHUFELT, Staff Lead INSIDE THE MARKET Don't be fooled by the loonie's steady rise over the past five months. The Canadian dollar is not quite as strong as [...]

Byline: DAVID ROSENBERG Lead INSIDE THE MARKET Founder of Rosenberg Research, and author of the daily economic report, Breakfast with Dave I can't help but think that the Canadian dollar [...]

Byline: SCOTT BARLOW, Staff Lead The loonie picked the exact wrong time to re-establish its link with crude oil prices, as it continues to be dragged lower by a global [...]

CANADIAN STOCKS The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX fell 0.14 per cent, to 16,265.82. The biggest weight to the TSX loss was Suncor Energy with a drag of 5.35 index points. [...]

Byline: SCOTT BARLOW; Staff Is the Canadian dollar overvalued or are the primary factors driving the loonie's value changing? This week's Bank of Canada statement on monetary policy is likely [...]

Byline: DAVID BERMAN; Staff If the United States withdraws from the North American freetrade agreement, Canadian investors are going to be scrambling for the best ways to protect themselves from [...]

Byline: SCOTT BARLOW; Staff Analysts from Bank of Montreal, Toronto-Dominion Bank and Bank of Nova Scotia are forecasting that the loonie will get a big boost from rising oil prices [...]

Byline: TIM SHUFELT; Staff There's no hiding from a strong loonie. Even the most domestically focused Canadian investor has little hope of entirely dodging foreign-exchange movements, which can prove to [...]

Byline: DAVID ROSENBERG The Bank of Canada raised rates again on Wednesday to 1 per cent from 0.75 per cent, and sure didn't indicate it was willing to press the [...]

Byline: TIM SHUFELT; Staff The loonie's show of strength this summer serves as a tough lesson on the power of currency movements to spoil returns. For investors with diversified portfolios, [...]

Byline: DAVID ROSENBERG When the Canadian dollar almost touched 72.46 cents (U.S.) back in early May, we turned very bullish on the currency. Let's briefly revisit that period: The mantra [...]

Byline: ERIC ATKINS; Staff Like any farmer, Jeff Nielsen keeps an eye on the weather, hoping for an end to the hot, dry spell that hit parts of the Canadian [...]

Byline: SCOTT CLAYTON What are we looking for? Canadian dividend stocks set to rise alongside the loonie. The screen Rising interest rates, Canada's strong economy and U.S. political uncertainty should [...]

Byline: SCOTT BARLOW; Staff The most accurate measure of fair value for the loonie has been the difference between Canadian and U.S. bond yields and, according to this indicator, the [...]

Byline: DAVID ROSENBERG The fact that the loonie rallied a further 0.4 per cent on Friday while oil prices slid 2.3 per cent provided a clear sign that the Canadian [...]

Byline: KELLY CRYDERMAN; Staff CALGARY -- The Bank of Canada says the economy as a whole has adjusted to lower prices for crude, and the oil-price shock that began three [...]

Byline: JOHN HEINZL; Staff What do you recommend investors do now that the Canadian dollar is rising against the U.S. dollar? When it comes to currencies, Canadian investors face a [...]

Byline: PAUL HOYDA What are we looking for? Canadian companies that might benefit from a low dollar in the short term and have a strong relative valuation to their industry [...]

Byline: MICHAEL BABAD; Staff Speculators have turned against the Canadian dollar in a sudden - and huge - bearish swing. Indeed, Bank of Nova Scotia believes it to be the [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Jones; Staff Canadians became used to their dollar rising and falling in lockstep with oil markets as the energy sector's economic might grew. Now, the loonie could use [...]