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Canada's main stock index was again under pressure after the latest Federal Reserve rate decision also pushed down U.S. stocks in a volatile trading session. The S&P/TSX Composite Index closed down 181.86 points, or 0.95 per cent, at 19,002.68.  In New...

Paul Gardner, partner and portfolio manager, Avenue Investment Management FOCUS: REITS, fixed income and dividend stocks MARKET OUTLOOK: 2022 will continue to be challenging. The economic environment is difficult, pivoting between out-of-control in...

Even as the Federal Reserve jacks up interest rates and sends technology stocks tumbling, it only gets harder to stay away from the sector.  On the one hand, there’s so much to like: The Nasdaq 100 Index is now 35 per cent cheaper than at its 2020 peak, me...

Nasdaq Inc. is stepping up scrutiny of initial public offerings by small-cap companies, according to people familiar with the matter, after a series of outsized gains by new listings that quickly evaporated.  The exchange is looking more closely at prospec...

Workers will reclaim a bigger piece of the pie, but will they be any better off than when wages were being suppressed? Record job vacancies show labour is about to take its revenge. Victory might be bittersweet. We apol...

Stocks saw some wild swings, with traders overwhelmed by the many headlines that followed the Federal Reserve decision and ended up signaling at least one thing: policy will remain aggressively tight -- making the odds of a soft landing look increasingly elus...

Michael Sprung, president, Sprung Investment Management FOCUS: North American large-cap stocks MARKET OUTLOOK: Volatile markets are likely to persist for some time. The pandemic highlighted the fragility of global supply chains and put a new focus...

Canada's main stock index ended down almost one per cent and U.S. stock indexes closed even lower following whipsaw trading after the U.S. Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point and signalled more sharp hikes to c...

Stocks came under pressure as Treasury yields hit multiyear highs, with traders bracing for a hawkish Federal Reserve that’s expected to boost rates to levels not seen since before the 2008 financial crisis. A slide in equities pushed the S&P 500 more than...

For stock traders grappling with a hawkish Federal Reserve and a looming recession, the next shoe to drop will be on corporate earnings, according to a BlackRock Inc. co-chief investment officer.  “What we’re concerned about increasingly is earnings downgr...