Canadians in a Sour Mood about 2026 It’s truly sad that an amazing country with so much potential is suffering in the throes of yet another recession, with a majority of its citizens expressing fear about the future. Surveys from Abacus Data and MNP show Canadians are feeling gloomy. MNP with its just released survey…
October Stock Market Correction This Friday morning saw stocks hitting new record highs, bubbling effusively with expectations of a 7000 S&P forecast. In fact, Fundstrat’s Tom Lee just this week reiterated his belief in the very positive 2025 year-end prediction of 7000. Then today, markets plummeted to have their worst day since the April liberation…
Canadian Travel Expenditures Likely to Decline Significantly What might be brewing as a big problem for travel and tourism businesses picked up momentum this week. President Trump was pumping his unwelcome sign to Canadians and Europeans with new restrictions on those nationals traveling within the US for more than 30 days. They’ll need to register…
Will Home Prices Fall? Renters have been hoping and praying for an ease in rent prices across the country for many years. Unfortunately for renters, rent prices are forecasted to rise over 2025/2026. The reason for this is the positive economic outlook with the incoming Trump administration. Stronger employment and wages, more consumer spending, lower…
How To Pick the Best Stocks of 2025 (and which are best) The Santa Claus rally is racing up to great you with its promise of sweet, fast, easy returns, but are the real best stocks to be found in the January market dip expected too? You’re looking for easy, reliable selections and I’ve got…
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…
Markets Staging a Rally? Is last week’s market rally a real trend in investor sentiment? What caused the rise this month and the jump this week? Was it a technical correction, short covering, rising GDP report, or news regarding inflation rate in October so far (privileged data, not publicly available)? This chart shows how strong…
Twitter Sues Elon Musk to Avoid Catastrophe Following on the heels of an embarrassing rejection from potential billionaire buyer Elon Musk (Tesla), the social media platform called Twitter is on very shaky ground. As it turns out, the ground under Elon Musk is beginning to quake too. His company Tesla was doing well, yet with…
A Democrat Defeat Could Help Avoid a Recession Right now the talk is all about a recession and many see it as inevitable with no means of prevention. Even Larry Summers has raised his forecast for a recession to a gloomy 100%. These people have fully bought into the idea that the economy follows the…