Canada’s job market is changing as young graduates struggle to find work and experienced tech workers face major salary cuts, while AI and outsourcing reshape employment.
A national sovereign wealth fund, $25 billion in seed capital, strategic industries, retail participation, and principal protection. It sounds attractive, but investors should first ask: what will it invest in, who will manage it, and who will bear the risk?
Palantir shares jumped 20% after reporting strong second-quarter earnings, driven by surging enterprise demand for AI sovereignty and secure data integration.
Canada’s housing construction boom is cooling, but the bigger change is structural: more new homes are being built for renters, not for owner-occupiers. BMO says Canada is seeing a housing-market shift it has never seen before.
Global AI spending is accelerating across chips, data centres, cloud computing, power, software, model training, and enterprise applications. AI is becoming economic infrastructure, but investors still need to separate technological value from stock prices, profitability, cash flow, debt, and valuation risk.
Canadian household wealth remains heavily concentrated in real estate. As home prices weaken, the housing wealth effect is turning negative, while stocks and funds are becoming more important drivers of household wealth and spending.
Microsoft’s latest earnings report sent its stock sharply higher, pushing the company to the largest single-day market value gain ever recorded in global equity markets.
After South Korea relaxed rules for single-stock leveraged ETFs, retail investors poured into products tied to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. When chip stocks reversed sharply, some leveraged ETFs collapsed from their highs, leading to heavy losses and a public apology from the finance minister.
Two Ottawa homeowners thought their insurance would protect them after a major flood. Instead, they discovered that the most dangerous part of home insurance may not be the premium, but the fine print that appears only when disaster happens.
The same money can produce very different tax results depending on whether it goes into a TFSA or RRSP, and when. For people whose income is expected to rise quickly, account sequencing may become a powerful planning tool.