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Brian Madden's Top Picks: April 5, 2021 Stocks climb to record after strong economic data Goldman axes short dollar call as U.S. yields spoil bet As meme stock mania fizzles, Wall Street sees ‘big reckoning’ S&P 500 breaks above 4,000 as bull market barrels on Barry Schwartz's Top Picks: April 1, 2021 Miley Cyrus's offer shows how stocks are now cool A traditional Wall Street advantage is suddenly being threatened S&P 500 surges past record 4,000 on growth outlook Killing off Libor gets real for banks on key milestone date Megadeal surge leads Canada to record first quarter for M&A ...

When employment doesn’t mitigate poverty Could it maybe have something to do with Saskatchewan having the lowest minimum wage in the country? According to Statistics Canada data, in January of 2021, Saskatchewan had the lowest unemployment rate of any province at 7.2 per cent. While that is a lovely number, other Statistics Canada data also places Saskatchewan as having one of the highest overall poverty rates in the country and the third highest child poverty rate. This begs the question, with that amount of people employed, why are so many living under the poverty line? I’m going to sta...

Coronavirus: COVID-19 and the Canadian economy, one year later Mike Drolet © Provided by Global News A hand painted sign about the Canada Emergency Business Account, is seen in front window of Frances Watson, a store on Queen St. West, on April 15 2020. Some businesses were happy to hear about the CEBA, but now find some of the requirements to hard to meet. The true financial impact of COVID-19 will take years, if not decades, to ascertain.  But now, a year after the pandemic forced all Canadians inside their homes for the first time, we know not every Canadian was dealt t...

The Globe and Mail Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer New survey data from Statistics Canada show just how big a hole the pandemic has put in Canada’s private-sector capital investment – a hole that the expected bounce-back in spending this year won’t come close to filling. If this recovery is going to have legs, governments are going to have to focus their attentions on clos...

MJ_Prototype via Getty Images With little to do in the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada’s households have run up an all-time record high cash pile, about $100 billion more in savings than they otherwise would have had, economists at CIBC say. “The government of Canada is counting on you to ignite a strong recovery by spending that money when it’s safe to do so,” economists Benjamin Tal and Katherine Judge wrote in a report issued Friday. Of course, not everyone has shared equally in this new cash bonanza, and ― as seems to be the case with everything in this pandemic ― the wealthier you ...