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Copper prices hit 8-year high on pandemic-induced government spending and tightening supplies
credit INMET Cobre Panama mine site.
international business
IMF says public debt soaring to nearly 100% of global GDP as governments spend to battle coronavirus
FILE PHOTO: A participant stands near a logo of IMF at the International Monetary Fund - World Bank Annual Meeting 2018 in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, October 12, 2018. REUTERS/Johannes P. Christo
politics
Supercluster funding behind schedule, unlikely to create 10,000 jobs: PBO report
Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux waits to appear before the Commons Finance committee on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Tuesday, March 10, 2020. The parliamentary budget officer estimates in a new report that it will cost $17.9 billion to provide eight extra weeks of payments through the Canada Emergency Response Benefit. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
investment ideas
As U.S. dollar slides, some investors fret about its status as world’s reserve currency
U.S. Dollar banknotes are seen in this photo illustration taken February 12, 2018.
advisor news
Advisors prepare clients for anticipated tax hikes
Canadian Taxes
politics
Morneau expected to reveal federal deficit in excess of $300-billion
Minister of Finance Bill Morneau arrives to a meeting in the House of Commons on May 13, 2020.
advisor stocks
What impact will this year’s U.S. presidential election have on the stock market?
Close-up of man casting and inserting a vote and choosing and making a decision what he wants in polling box with United States flag blended in background
opinion
Has the crisis proven that deficits really don’t matter, after all?
Konrad Yakabuski
asia-pacific business
Japan approves fresh $1.1-trillion stimulus to combat economic impact of coronavirus
Employees wearing face masks wait for customers in front of their restaurants in Tokyo on April 6, 2020.
opinion
Has the COVID-19 pandemic made the federal government’s fiscal situation unsustainable?
Mostafa Askari, Sahir Khan and Kevin Page
opinion
Get ready for deficits the likes of which we’ve never seen
Konrad Yakabuski
tax and spend
The fiscal fight against coronavirus around the globe
Minister of Finance Bill Morneau speaks to reporters during a press conference in the in the Foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Thursday, March 12, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
tax and spend
How government pensions are blowing up the federal deficit
(FILES)A woman walks past the Bank of Canada building in Ottawa on April 12, 2011. - Canada's central bank on March 4, 2020 cut its key lending rate by 50 basis points to 1.25 percent in response to the growing economic risk posed by the coronavirus epidemic. The interest rate drop was the first in Canada since mid-2015, and followed a similar move by the US Federal Reserve on Tuesday. (Photo by GEOFF ROBINS / AFP) (Photo by GEOFF ROBINS/AFP via Getty Images)
international business
G7 officials pledge co-ordinated effort to counter economic impact of coronavirus
FILE PHOTO: Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda attends a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, January 21, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo