Canada’s plunging currency was a hot topic this week, as the loonie set a new 11-year low seemingly every single day since Monday. The reasons why Canadian dollar loosing are complex, but they’re very closely tied to the slumping price of oil, which can’t seem to find a bottom. OPEC is pumping more, the IEA […]
Toronto Business Posts
How negative interest rates could have a positive economic impact
Normally when you put money in a savings account with a bank, you earn money on that deposit. If you were to deposit $100 at a 0.5 per cent interest rate, for example, you would have $100.50 at the end of the year. A negative interest rate would work the other way — if you […]
CMHC finds foreign ownership of Toronto Condos low but growing
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation has crunched the 2015 numbers on foreign ownership of condos in Canadian cities and again concluded that it is low but growing. In Vancouver, about 3.5 per cent of condominiums were owned by foreign buyers in 2015, up from 2.3 per cent a year earlier. The percentage jumped in […]
Toronto, Vancouver house sales set blistering pace in November 2015
Home sales are at record levels in Toronto and near record levels in Vancouver, despite a steep run-up in prices that is putting housing out of reach for many first-time buyers. The era of rock-bottom mortgage rates shows signs of ending, with bond yields on the rise and the U.S. set to raise its benchmark […]
Fiscal update erases projected surplus, Canada government expects $3B budget deficit
The deteriorating economic picture means that the projections of last April are now about $6 billion per year lower, on average, for the next few years. That accounts for the projected $3-billion deficit in the current fiscal year and a larger $3.9-billion deficit next year, before eventually returning to surplus in 2019-2020. Part of that is […]
