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Tech companies like WeWork enter the market with big promises to disrupt and make life better, cooler or easier. At first they’re willing to lose millions of dollars a month, but they eventually start to behave more and more like the incumbents. But by then, the existing industry has been changed as well.
2 months ago
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The American and Canadian economies are very similar. Inflation is decelerating, employment remains robust, but one is growing by 4.9 per cent while the other is flirting with a recession.
3 months ago
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Inflation is decelerating, which should give the Bank of Canada enough wiggle room to pause interest rate hikes. But there’s a big difference between things not getting worse and things getting better.
3 months ago
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Economic data has been surprisingly resilient, but financial markets don’t believe the numbers. What messages and warnings are markets sending — and should we be heeding them?
4 months ago
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The Bank of Canada will announce its latest interest rate policy on Wednesday. The central bank appears poised to make good on its promise to pause rate increases.
11 months ago
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The Bank of Canada will announce its latest interest rate policy on Wednesday. The central bank appears poised to make good on its promise to pause rate increases.
11 months ago
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The Bank of Canada is trying to get inflation all the way down to two per cent. But many of the forces that kept inflation low and stable for decades may have “run their course.”
11 months ago
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Canada added 150,000 jobs last month even as inflation decelerated. That’s challenging basic economic theory about what is supposed to be happening.
12 months ago
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The tech industry added jobs in droves during the pandemic, when it expected consumers to remain online even after COVID waned. Now those firms are laying off thousands of employees, even as smaller companies struggle to find skilled workers.
about 1 year ago
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Businesses that depend on the flow of office workers are struggling as vacancy rates in office towers across Canada continue to rise. Vancouver’s office tower vacancy rate has tripled since 2019, while Montreal’s has doubled.
about 1 year ago
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Adding 108,000 jobs is good news. But it means the Bank of Canada’s efforts to
slow the economy may not be working as well as it had hoped. What will the bank
do if those efforts aren’t working?
about 1 year ago
