Open banking is promising, will take time: DBRS
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- By: James Langton
- January 30, 2025 January 30, 2025
- 15:51
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Soaring housing costs limiting population mobility across Canada: CMHC
Employers in expensive cities have to offer higher salaries to attract talent, which raises expenses and lowers productivity
- By: The Canadian Press
- January 30, 2025 January 30, 2025
- 13:16
Bank of Canada cut will prompt lower variable mortgage rate costs: Ratehub
The Big Six banks have decreased their prime rates to 5.2%
- By: Sammy Hudes, The Canadian Press
- January 30, 2025 January 30, 2025
- 10:19
U.S. economy grows solid 2.3% from October to December, 2.8% for full year 2024
Q4 growth came in below economists' expectations; the economy grew 2.8% during the year
- By: Paul Wiseman, The Associated Press
- January 30, 2025 January 30, 2025
- 09:13
European Central bank cuts benchmark rate by a quarter percentage point to boost stagnant economy
The ECB's benchmark rate sits at 2.75% now, as consumers fret about inflation and businesses navigate political risk
- By: David Mchugh, The Associated Press
- January 30, 2025 January 30, 2025
- 08:24
Fed hold rates steady amid ‘solid’ job market and ‘somewhat elevated’ inflation
The central bank said it is harder to gauge where inflation is headed, in part because of uncertainty around Trump's policies
- By: Christopher Rugaber, The Associated Press
- January 29, 2025 January 29, 2025
- 14:31
EU banks face tricky stress test
Exercise will examine turmoil driven by geopolitics, trade uncertainty
- By: James Langton
- January 29, 2025 January 29, 2025
- 13:46
Experts say Canada-U.S. interest rate gap here to stay
The divergence in rates, one of the factors weighing on the Canadian dollar, could persist for the next decade
- By: Rosa Saba, Canadian Press
- January 29, 2025 January 29, 2025
- 11:20
BoC cuts key rate by quarter point to 3% as tariffs threat looms
This is the central bank’s sixth consecutive cut since June
- By: Nick Murray, The Canadian Press
- January 29, 2025 January 29, 2025
- 10:13
Most Canadian business leaders support dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs: KPMG
Six in 10 businesses surveyed said they could withstand a prolonged trade war with the U.S.
- By: Ritika Dubey, The Canadian Press
- January 29, 2025 January 29, 2025
- 10:10
Germany slashes its GDP growth forecast for 2025
It now expects the economy to grow at just 0.3% this year
- By: Associated Press
- January 29, 2025 January 29, 2025
- 09:33
Canadian retirement readiness little improved: NIA
Social isolation, financial insecurity, health care barriers plague retirees
- By: Jonathan Got
- January 28, 2025 January 28, 2025
- 17:22
Weak loonie, trade war could drive food prices higher: Metro
Trade disruptions could threaten normalization of food inflation, grocery giant CEO says
- By: Rosa Saba, Canadian Press
- January 28, 2025 January 28, 2025
- 14:31
Tariffs would be costly hit to auto sector where trade is balanced: TD report
Moving production fully to the U.S. estimated to cost auto producers US$50 billion
- By: Ian Bickis, The Canadian Press
- January 28, 2025 January 28, 2025
- 14:14
U.S. consumer confidence dips
The Conference Board's consumer confidence index fell to 104.1 this month from 109.5 in December
- By: Matt Ott, The Associated Press
- January 28, 2025 January 28, 2025
- 14:09
Trump bump: U.S. citizenship renunciation inquiries surge in Canada, lawyers say
The U.S. is one of the few countries that imposes tax based on citizenship, not residency
- By: Marcy Nicholson, The Canadian Press
- January 28, 2025 January 28, 2025
- 11:33
‘People are panicking’: Snowbirds rush to sell Florida homes as loonie tanks
Canadians made up nearly one-quarter of foreign sellers in Florida between April 2023 and March 2024: report
- By: Christopher Reynolds, The Canadian Press
- January 28, 2025 January 28, 2025
- 09:55
Trump’s tariff threat worked on Colombia, but his plans for Canada and Mexico carry higher stakes
Proposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico estimated to increase inflation in the U.S. by as much as 0.5 percentage points
- By: Josh Boak and Christopher Sherman, The Associated Press
- January 28, 2025 January 28, 2025
- 09:36
What is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company upending the stock market?
Nvidia shares fell on 17% Monday, losing a record $589 billion in market capitalization
- By: Matt O’brien, The Associated Press
- January 28, 2025 January 28, 2025
- 06:39
Provinces face divergent tariff threats
Ontario, Quebec manufacturing, Alberta energy most exposed, rating agencies say
- By: James Langton
- January 27, 2025 January 27, 2025
- 15:57
Fitch eyes new metric to flag sovereigns’ climate risks
Rating agency consults on process for systematically identifying climate threats
- By: James Langton
- January 27, 2025 January 27, 2025
- 15:32
Derek Holt lets fly with spirited note to investors
"Maybe Ben Bernanke can help out Mr. Trump with a lesson on the various factors leading up to the Great Depression," Scotiabank VP writes
- By: Kevin Press
- January 27, 2025 January 28, 2025
- 14:35
ESG social media posts are often ‘window dressing’: study
Increased ESG messaging doesn’t always translate into tangible action
- By: Noushin Ziafati
- January 27, 2025 January 27, 2025
- 12:45
Federal Reserve expected to stand pat on rates even as Trump demands cuts
Pace of rate cuts expected to slow this year given positive economic reports
- By: Christopher Rugaber, The Associated Press
- January 27, 2025 January 27, 2025
- 07:37
Economists expecting sixth straight — but more modest — rate cut from Bank of Canada
Canada's central bank has lowered its overnight rate five consecutive times
- By: Sammy Hudes, The Canadian Press
- January 27, 2025 January 27, 2025
- 07:02