Business Briefing

Bank of America cuts Canadian economic outlook amid ‘negative shock’ from coronavirus

Ottawa, Montreal housing markets at risk of overheating

Are Canada’s consumer debt fears overblown? (A Scotiabank economist thinks they’re ‘highly exaggerated’)

Canada’s loonie no longer the ‘best dollar’

Residents flee Toronto’s high house prices

Markets dismiss Bernie Sanders ‘at their peril’

CIBC urges governments to turn the taps off, tight, as budget season begins today

RBC fears Toronto’s housing market is headed for another round of froth

How Apple ‘outsold the entire Swiss watch industry’

Housing affordability is eroding in Canada (not that Harry and Meghan need to worry)

It’s not ‘peak car,’ but auto sales in Canada are forecast to fall again

Market woes: Investors should fear more than the coronavirus alone

Canada isn’t quite a nation of misers, but we are tightening parts of our belts

Coronavirus could propel Bank of Canada to trim rates sooner than during SARS crisis

Canada’s economy is flatlining

Stock market, economy face temporary slump from spreading Wuhan coronavirus

Should you invest in high-end real estate as bull market in stocks gets long in tooth? Many Canadians are

How Canada gets seared by the U.S.-China trade deal

Many Canadians are broke and blue (but spending will outpace income growth)

Canadian house prices: Be afraid. Be very afraid

'Overkill’: Bank of Canada must be gentle when it ultimately raises rates, given spike in insolvencies

‘Canada has been entirely dependent on a debt binge to create the illusion of a strong economy.' (Oh, and happy holidays)

Bill Morneau’s ‘political minefield’: The Canadian government is so broke that …

The Canadian dollar in 2020: ‘Hope for the best, prepare for the worst’ (when worst may be best for some)

Canadians are working many extra hours before and after holidays ... so they can take holidays

Canadians are defaulting on non-mortgage debt at highest third-quarter pace since 2012

How governments could blow it: If Ottawa spends (a bit) but provinces hold back, you’ve got bupkis

And in last place for prime real estate in 2020 (with bargains) … Vancouver

A challenged Ontario sticks out like a very sore thumb in Moody’s study of the provinces

Unaffordability rears its ugly head as Toronto detached home nears $1.5-million again

Imagine our infamous household debt if the Bank of Canada cuts rates. (It didn’t today, but imagine)

The Canadian dollar in 2020: ‘From good to bad, but not quite ugly'

40 central banks have eased up. Here’s why the Bank of Canada won’t join in this week

The hills are alive (with the sound of ka-ching): The cost of Canadian ski properties

Economically speaking, B.C. is killing it, Alberta is pushing it, Ontario is losing it, Quebec is botching it