interest rates

With economic growth and job creation still slow to materialize in the Western world, interest rates remain at record low levels in many of the world’s key developed market regions.

It is an extraordinary measure for a central bank, particularly the purchase of financial assets to encourage the decline in risk premiums.  To be explicit on that point and to extensively inf

For seventeen straight weeks ‘mom and pop’ investors have been heading for the hills when it came to equity based mutual funds.

The investment public has been throwing more money into bonds and bond mutual funds than ever before in history.

The municipal bond market has performed well in recent years.  A long period of declining U.S.

In the investment world it’s almost a religion to show charts of 1-3-5-10 and 20 year total returns as evidence of how you should be investing for the future.

While the media circus is focusing on Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain, commodity traders should be mo

Americans have enjoyed nearly three decades of declining credit costs.

India raised interest rates in a surprise move on Friday, March 19, 2010.  This followed recent interest rate increases by Australia and Malaysia, all three countries are experiencing strong e

David Rosenberg, Chief Economist at Gluskin Sheff, has recently given a couple of different views about the near term future for housing prices.