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Weekly Economic Watch
The Weekly Economic Watch offers a commentary on developments in the economic environment as depicted by economic indicators released during the week and on indicators to be published in the upcoming week. Trends in a wide range of international, national and provincial economic and financial indicators are also presented.
Monthly Monitors
Each month, the World economic outlook, in particular the North-American context, is reassessed.
It also includes forecasts for the major economic and financial variables.
Hot Charts
- U.S.: Historical perspective on equity bear markets
- U.S.: Could the housing shortage turn into a glut?
- Canada: The BoC was wrong to abandon the jobless rate
- U.S.: Inventories are not bloated
- Canada: BoC should insist that this data be published
- Canada: Higher for longer?
- U.S.: Diffusion for earnings revisions has turned negative
- U.S.: Fastest inversion ever
- Canada: Resource sector GDP tops $310 billion
- Canada: : Surging food and energy prices already equal to 3 rate hikes!
Market View
- In Focus [Addendum] - Ontario’s wrinkle in time
- Some perspective on record foreign buying of ‘Canadian’ securities
- In Focus [Addendum] - Seeking a CAD angle on June’s hefty cashflows
- The abnormal anatomy of this hiking cycle
- Searching for a seasonal supply outlet
- In Focus - An eye to the coming June cash deluge
- What a long, strange sell-off it’s been
- $111 billion provi bonds on the wall…
- A Canadian budgetary snapshot
- [Update] - Better 21, better 22? No contest, however…
A detailed listing with links to every Market View report published this year
Special Reports
An analysis on a current economic or financial topic.
- (2022/01/18) “What’s going on in Quebec?”
- (2021/11/30) Canada can't afford to bleed capital like this
- (2021/08/17) Debt servicing costs
- (2021/08/13) In Focus - Ballot Ballet: A 2021 federal election primer in four acts
- (2021/04/30) Has the BoC disavowed its own core inflation measures?
- (2020/07/24) Canadian Labour Market: Devils in the details
- (2020/06/29) Is a second lockdown inevitable?
- (2020/06/01) Canada’s official reserves: Time for a review
- (2020/05/27) Is Canadian residential real estate teetering on the brink?
Budgets and Financial Updates
Geopolitical Briefing
- The higher costs involved in moving to a lower-trust global economy
- The environmental controversy surrounding wood-based biofuels
- The Ukraine war and remaking of the world order
- Ukraine and the fog of war
- Is the EU facing the perfect energy and geopolitical storm?
- Update: Is a carbon border tax inevitable? - (Original version from March 22, 2021) Is a carbon border tax inevitable?
- The Looming Global Water Crisis: An Update
- Supply chain challenges: From just-in-time to just-in-case
- Will Afghanistan reshape the global and U.S. political landscape?
- Will China-U.S. tensions reverse the trend of ever-greater financial ties?
Benchmark Reform Update
This monitor provides a comprehensive picture of the past, present and future issues surrounding the LIBOR transition and broader benchmark reform underway across international financial markets.