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The stock market ended the week at all-time highs, with traders looking past signals of a slowdown in the world’s largest economy to focus on prospects for Federal Reserve rate cuts. In a post-holiday session marked by thin volume, the S&P 500 notched its...

Nvidia Corp.’s breakneck rally since the start of last year has finally run out of room to push higher, according to New Street Research analyst Pierre Ferragu. Ferragu downgraded the AI-focused chipmaker to neutral from buy, writing that the stock is “get...

Bitcoin fell for a fourth consecutive trading session, reaching the lowest since February, on concerns about potential selling by governments, creditors of a failed exchange and beleaguered crypto miners.  The original digital asset fell as much as eight p...

Mike Vinokur, portfolio manager at MV Wealth Partners with iA Private Wealth FOCUS: North American large caps  MARKET OUTLOOK: We are cautiously optimistic that U.S. equity markets can keep performing, however, we expect that there will be a rotati...

Youth jobless rate hasn't been this high since 2014Canada’s unemployment rate rose to 6.4 per cent in June from 6.2 per cent a month earlier, continuing an upward trend that began in April of 2023, Statistics Canada said on Friday. We apologize, but this...

Canada's unemployment rate rises and job numbers fallThe latest jobs data shows Canada’s unemployment rate continuing to rise, giving the Bank of Canada further ammunition to keep cutting interest rates, economists said. We apologize, but this video has...

European stocks rose as key elections held centre stage and investors grew more optimistic about U.S. Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts following U.S. economic data that supported the case for easing. France’s CAC40 benchmark index advanced for a second d...

Experts have mixed opinions on the extent to which generative AI will enhance productivity and the value it can provide relative to its costs, as it faces further challenges from chip and power shortages.  In a report last week, Goldman Sachs looked into t...

Keith Richards, president and chief portfolio manager, ValueTrend Wealth Management FOCUS: Technical analysis  MARKET OUTLOOK: One of the benefits of being in this business for 34 years is that I have been sitting in the same seat through many corr...

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