Housing as Canada’s Best Path to Growth and Affordability The Canadian economy is beginning to slouch significantly and the Liberal government appears to lack any solutions to save it from further harm. It’s a depressing scenario for all Canadians including those looking for a place to live, or a home to buy, or who need…
US Economic Outlook Investors await the FED’s next rate announcement next week, making it the ideal time to discuss the US economic outlook. There experts who don’t like the 6 month forecast believing the lagging effects of the high rates are now kicking in and will persist. Whether that weighs on the stock market or…
Is the US Headed for a Recession? Recession Watch 2024: It’s time to revisit the matter of the recession threat. There are plenty of factors that might conspired to send the stock market, housing market and whole economy spiraling downward to rough landing. Yes, you’re wondering about the possibility as many others are. The general…
Forecast for the 2024 Stock Market 2023 was a choppy uncertain year for the markets making investors and business managers nervous about the road ahead. Their courage and optimism is about to be paid off handsomely in 2024. Many analysts are down on 2024, burdened by the higher for longer them by the FED. They…
Recovery of the Economy Looks Promising — Mike Wilson Morgan Stanley’s Chief Investment Officer is bullish on 2024 and 2025, but was bearish on 2023 earnings. He’s warning investors that this mini bull market may not be trusted, and that a last half 2023 correction, at least in sentiment is due. He lays out his…
Stock Market Outlook Next Ten Years It’s difficult for any investor to make confident stock buying and selling decisions without a clear, long term vision of the economy. You want some certainty about the 5 year outlook and the 10 year long range outlook. This long range outlook is about more than the Dow Jones…
EIA Predicts Big Price Drop in Brent and WTI Oil EIA, the US Energy Information Administration made it’s predictions for future oil prices and surprisingly, they believe oil prices will fall. In their latest price forecast, a shocking one, they predict the price of Brent crude oil will average $75/b in 2022 and $68/b in…
Where is Canada’s Economy Headed? A new report on Canadian GDP has more people taking a closer look at the Canadian economy and perhaps reconsidering how they’ll vote in this coming snap Federal election. StatsCan says Canada’s GDP shrank 1.1% in the 2nd quarter of 2021 and has dropped by .4% in July. According to…
What’s the Outlook for the CAD? Businesses, snowbirds, currency speculators, forex brokers, and importers in Canada are all trying to forecast where the CAD USD currency rate is headed. Currency rates are complex however the data is suggesting this latest downward slide will continue. Only 2 years ago, some red-faced currency rate forecasters expected the…