Open this photo in gallery: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. The Fed is widely expected to hold interest rates steady in its monetary policy decision on Wednesday.Julia Demaree Nikhinson/The Associated Press A looming U.S. deadline for more severe global tariffs is among a barrage of upcoming events threatening to disrupt an increasingly calm U.S. stock…
Open this photo in gallery: RxFood is an AI-driven app that assess photos of user’s food for a variety of nutritional measures – such as calories, protein and carbs – and suggests tips to improve their eating habits.Laura Proctor/The Globe and Mail Alan Levine struggled for years to track what he ate. Even though he…
A daily rundown of the economic reports and corporate earnings that will be grabbing the market’s attention in the week ahead Monday July 21 830 am ET: Canada industrial product price index and raw materials price index 10 am ET: U.S. leading indicator for June 1030 am ET: Bank of Canada business outlook survey and…
Open this photo in gallery: Prime Minister Mark Carney made it pretty clear that President Donald Trump will accept no agreement that limits the use of tariffs as his cornerstone policy.Rob Gurdebeke/The Canadian Press Lawrence Herman is an international lawyer with Herman & Associates and a senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto….
Open this photo in gallery: More attention is being turned to the health benefits of fibre, with some dubbing the trend ‘fibremaxxing.’iStock Isheeta Borkar has always been fairly health-conscious. Earlier this year, however, the 33-year-old began seeing a number of fibre-focused social-media posts that made her pause and take stock of her diet. There was…
Open this photo in gallery: Financial news plays in the background as traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading, on April 21, in New York City.Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump roiled markets by reigniting his public tirade against Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, sending everything…
John Rapley is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. He is an author and academic whose books include Why Empires Fall and Twilight of the Money Gods. Open this photo in gallery: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, on April 17.Richard Drew/The Associated Press Following the wild gyrations…
Back in 2008, the stock markets welcomed young investors of the millennial generation with a peak-to-trough decline of close to 50 per cent. Lessons about the downside of stocks came regularly after that. The S&P/TSX composite index lost money in 2011, 2015, 2018 and 2022. Obscured by a quick rebound was the 37-per-cent peak-to-trough fall…
Open this photo in gallery: Employees work on a production line of caps that will be exported to the United States at a factory in Suqian, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province on April 7.STR/Getty Images Countries around the world scrambled to contain the fallout of U.S. tariffs on Monday as Donald Trump threatened higher levies…
Open this photo in gallery: U.S. President Donald Trump walks though the Hall of Nations during a tour at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts where he also lead a board meeting on March 17, in Washington, DC.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Dimitry Anastakis is the Wilson-Currie Chair in Canadian Business History at the…