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15:40, 03/09/2018

BUENOS AIRES—President Mauricio Macri on Sept. 3 announced new taxes on exports in the world’s third-biggest soy producer and steep cuts to government spending in an “emergency” bid ...

15:35, 30/08/2018

The U.S.-led trade war with China is jeopardizing the Chinese economy’s illegitimate house of cards. In a desperate move, Beijing is now trying to revive free trade talks with Canada even after one of...

08:17, 25/08/2018

25BEIRUT—For Mazen Rahhal, a shop owner in a bustling district of Beirut, Lebanon’s economy has seldom felt more precarious. In one store, he sells clothes at a fraction of their previous price....

20:02, 22/08/2018

NEW YORK—The U.S. dollar continued its slide on Aug. 22, and the euro hit a two-week high as investors rushed to cover short positions. Some analysts said renewed U.S. political uncertainty could keep...

07:20, 14/08/2018

Turkey’s currency crisis sent world markets reeling, as investors in emerging markets sought safety in government bonds and the dollar. It follows the lira’s record plunge of up to 18 percent on Aug. ...

09:06, 13/08/2018

NEW YORK—Concerns about Britain’s plan to leave the European Union sent the pound to an 11-month low against the greenback on Monday, while U.S.-China trade tensions helped boost the U.S. curren...

08:25, 07/08/2018

Shares in Apple Inc edged higher on Friday but stayed close to the $1 trillion valuation milestone the iPhone maker reached a day earlier, even as Wall Street predicted more gains. After becoming the ...

09:07, 03/08/2018

People want the easy life, the simple life, with predetermined expectations, predictability, and mundane repetitiveness. This is what existed for the workforce back in the 1960s and ’70s. But th...

10:41, 01/08/2018

South Korea plans to invest 1.5 trillion won ($1.34 billion) over the next 10 years in its semiconductor industry, according to Yonhap News Agency. Paik Ungyu—the Minister of Trade, Industry, and Ener...

21:17, 31/07/2018

The U.S. dollar has become the safest asset, in the face of mounting evidence that competitive devaluations and drowning structural problems in liquidity are coming to a close. The U.S. dollar is stre...

09:30, 18/07/2018

It’s in all the economic headlines now: After years of academics worrying about falling prices, the inflation threat is back. The Wall Street Journal wrote in its July 12 newsletter: “Inflation ...

07:25, 16/07/2018

Mexico’s leftist president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he is willing to work with President Donald Trump and reach a deal on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), despite strongl...

19:28, 14/07/2018

The CEO of any company in the world is under severe pressure. The primary forces the CEO is facing are built directly on the forward-moving nature of business and the sheer number of walls he has to s...

14:51, 08/07/2018

It happened again. Tax receipts soared in the United States after the recent tax cuts. Although it will take a while for the full effect of the 2017 tax reform to kick in, U.S. state and local governm...

03:46, 02/07/2018

Stock futures are looking a bit delicate currently, with the e-minis down more than 10 handles and at one point coming close to testing June 25 lows. Weakness in the global markets begets weakness in ...

09:30, 01/07/2018

Even as the Federal Open Market Committee raised short-term interest rates last week, the Trump Administration doubled down on trade rhetoric to gain leverage in the mid-term elections. The markets ha...

17:17, 22/06/2018

Under the new tax code, taxpayers who itemize their deductions will be subject to a cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions. States with higher individual income and property tax rates have objec...

16:55, 22/06/2018

OTTAWA—The U.S. commerce secretary says Canada is not a national security threat and that a revitalized NAFTA could make the Trump administration’s tariffs on steel and aluminum go away. Wilbur Ross a...

07:33, 18/06/2018

Tax reform is boosting company savings, which in return benefits “workers, productivity, and the economy overall,” according to JPMorgan Chase. Since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was signed into law in D...

08:09, 12/06/2018

ZURICH—A radical plan to transform Switzerland’s financial landscape by barring commercial banks from electronically creating money when they lend was resoundingly rejected by Swiss voters on Su...

15:15, 04/09/2018

LONDON—Oil prices rose on Sept. 3, supported by concerns that falling Iranian output will tighten markets once U.S. sanctions bite from November, but gains were limited by higher supply from OPEC and ...

07:52, 01/09/2018

LONDON—A scorching hot, dry summer has ended five years of plenty in many wheat producing countries and drawn down the reserves of major exporters to their lowest level since 2007/08, when low grain s ...

09:26, 29/08/2018

Companies buying back their own shares is now one of the biggest sources of demand for stocks, helping propel the S&P 500 to new record highs. Goldman Sachs expects the amount of stock bought back ...

07:00, 21/08/2018

SAO PAULO—Fears of e-commerce taking off in Brazil have sunk shares of the country’s big mall operators this year, but industry executives expressed confidence that local shopping habits, the re ...

09:13, 15/08/2018

ISTANBUL—The Turkish lira plunged to a record low on Monday after the Trump administration said it was reviewing Turkey’s duty-free access to the U.S. market, a move that could affect $1.7 billi ...

13:08, 09/08/2018

In his newsletter and blog “Altucher Confidential,” maverick investor and author James Altucher usually focuses on out of the box investments like obscure pharma stocks, or buying a laundr ...

08:47, 08/08/2018

NEW YORK—The likelihood of a Democratic party takeover of at least one house of the U.S. Congress in the midterm elections in November is prompting some portfolio managers to move more money to cash a ...

10:01, 26/07/2018

American hard money advocate, economist, and publisher Franz Pick once called government bonds “Guaranteed Certificates of Confiscation.” In making that statement, he assumed the government would even ...

09:03, 23/07/2018

NEWS ANALYSIS The Canadian stock market has long been a laggard globally, but it reached record highs last week and outperformed the S&P 500 by 3 percent in the second quarter. The Canadian econom ...

20:39, 19/07/2018

China resorts to predatory trade and investment practices and should be held accountable for its bad behavior, according to two key House Republicans. “China does not share our values. We have long se ...

21:31, 17/07/2018

The United States is on track to surpass both Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world’s largest oil producer, for the first time since the 1970s. U.S. crude oil production will average 10.8 ...

15:26, 10/07/2018

Malaysia suspended three of its largest China-backed projects worth $22 billion on Thursday. The projects in question are the $20 billion East Coast Rail Link and two pipeline projects that cost more ...

20:02, 07/07/2018

Top U.S. automakers reported stronger June sales, as consumers continued to snap up sport utility vehicles and trucks in larger numbers, parking for now worries about rising fuel prices, higher intere ...

05:16, 04/07/2018

The market for initial public offerings on American stock exchanges recorded the highest volume since 2012 in the first half of this year. A total of 120 companies raised $35.2 billion through initial ...

07:50, 24/06/2018

In an effort to tackle a looming oil supply shortage, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will be discussing output levels at its biannual meeting in Vienna on June 22–23. The ...

16:30, 21/06/2018

The First Trust Nasdaq Cybersecurity ETF (exchange-traded fund) opened under the ticket CIBR. Securities must be classified as Cybersecurity company to be included. An ETF tracks a set of equities and ...

08:28, 19/06/2018

BRUSSELS—Although there has been the controversy over bubbles and fraud, the new technology called block chain and the cryptocurrency are increasingly being accepted as the stream of time in which peo ...

08:59, 13/06/2018

MUMBAI/STOCKHOLM—IKEA is set to open its first store in India next month, and the world’s biggest furniture retailer is localizing its offering – from the food menu to its “do-it-you ...

18:24, 11/06/2018

Quantum computing is here, although it’s far away from making it into the mainstream. To make a long story short, it will revolutionize computer hardware and be a lot faster than traditional mac ...

09:03, 07/09/2018

Home ownership in Canada fell for the first time in over 45 years, according to a Point2Homes study released this week. It had reached a record high of 69 percent in 2011, but as of 2016, it fell to 6 ...

09:24, 18/08/2018

NEWS ANALYSIS It’s about time Montreal’s real estate market saw some of the excitement that Toronto’s and Vancouver’s have garnered in recent years. The fundamentals of the market are solid: Strong po ...

14:34, 02/08/2018

Since the lows of June, financials have rebounded more than 10 percent, even as trade and the flattening Treasury yield curve have dominated the Wall Street narrative. The bloom is off the rose in rea ...

07:19, 21/07/2018

There is an impressive collection of prestigious building and development awards in the boardroom of the Times Group’s corporate headquarters in Markham, but chasing awards is not what drives the 30-y ...

06:17, 06/07/2018

Edge Towers, a new three-tower condo project in Mississauga by Solmar Development Corp., boasts a location that is as central as they come. The community will be situated along Hurontario Street, Miss ...

16:24, 30/06/2018

VICTORIA—British Columbia’s government wants to crack down on tax evasion in the condominium market and has given municipalities more control over rental housing as it looks for ways of easing a housi ...

14:28, 29/06/2018

Condos will continue to be the dominant force in the Toronto real estate market in 2018 for affordability and lifestyle reasons. While this year’s sales may not top the recording-setting year 2017 was ...

15:53, 26/06/2018

A ranch in Rainbow Valley, Arizona, that is on the market for $5 million has generated a buzz, and not because it has a 10-foot swimming pool, five-bedrooms and four-bathrooms on almost 10 acres of la ...

16:15, 25/06/2018

Over the last decade, Elad Canada has established a reputation as a forward-thinking, reputable developer with transformative projects such as Emerald City in North York. Over the last 10 years, Elad ...

08:39, 16/06/2018

Toronto’s housing market keeps cooling off with sales falling sharply, but prices remain stable in aggregate, according to the Toronto Real Estate Board’s monthly news release. Home sales in the Great ...

10:16, 15/06/2018

The residential mortgage market in Canada faces a rocky 2018 as it deals with a new stress test for borrower eligibility amid a backdrop of rising interest rates. The fallout from the new rule has imp ...