A Strong US Economy Generated Light Inflation For Now, as ADP Payrolls Signal Nonfarm Upside and Home Sales Surged ...

US GDP, q/q SAAR, Q3: Actual: 2.8 Scotia: 3.0 Consensus: 2.9 Prior: 3.0 Ok that title won’t win any prizes, but it gets ...

Tuesday‘s US election and Thursday’s concentration of central bank decisions will be the biggest days of the week capped off by Canadian jobs on Friday. Which effect on markets comes first is unclear ...

Canada threw cold water on its immigration ambitions last week with a plan that would see a modest population contraction over the next two years. Our immediate reaction questioned the practicalities ...

Markets are playing defence this morning. Stocks are broadly lower across N.A. futures and European cash markets. US Treasuries are slightly bid versus cheapening across Europe led by underperforming ...

The highly uncertain US election is around the corner, with the risk of a tight race that may take a while to be called while the Fed holds its two-day policy meeting ahead of Thursday’s rate decision ...

On Tuesday, October 29 th, INE published the unemployment rate for the quarter ending in September, which dropped to 8.7% (chart 1), positively surprising our expectations and those of the market. The ...

Stocks higher on mixed earnings ahead of payrolls Scotia’s Nonfarm Payrolls Preview Oil up on reports Iran is preparing to attach Israel Other US data: ISM-mfrg, construction spending, vehicle sales ...

The outcome of the U.S. presidential race remains a coin-toss. Given former President Trump’s focus on trade policy in this campaign and the ongoing threat of tariffs that are central to his economic ...

Another busy day awaits, with month-end to boot (though Chilean markets closed already for the week), but at least Eurozone inflation figures are behind us (small beat) and now we have but to wait for ...

It’s fundamentals day! It’s both fun, and numbingly tedious, but here we go. A mixture of growth, inflation and jobs reports across Europe, Australia, the US and Mexico are not having much effect on ...