In an environment shaped by trade frictions and renewed focus on domestic production, the industrial sector stands out as one of the more compelling ways to invest in Canada’s long-term competitiveness.

Trading Central’s technical, fundamental, and options insights converge on a bullish outlook for Shopify with a risk-defined spread.

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U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled a rate-cut could come in September the soonest. A 25-basis-point cut is highly likely. Meanwhile, investors would still be interested in another set of major U.S. inflation data, which will be reported on Friday (August 29).

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is scheduled to give a speech on Friday (August 22) at the Fed's annual central banking conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. This should be the most important economic & financial event in the coming week.

A downbeat July non-farm payroll report has stirred up Expectations of a rate cut by the U.S. Federal Reserve. Investors' focus will turn onto major inflation data in the coming week.

U.S. President Donald Trump has been exerting pressure on Fed Chair Jerome Powell to cut interest rates. However, considering strength in the labor market and the not-so-weak inflation rate, we do not think Powell will yield to Trump’s demand.

When most investors think of fixed income, government or corporate bonds usually come to mind. Yet, tucked away in the Canadian market is an asset class that quietly delivers high yields, tax advantages, and diversification: Canadian preferred shares.

According to the European Central Bank’s chief economist, the central bank’s latest period of monetary policy interventions to bring inflation in check is “done”. However, a potential 30% U.S. tariff on European Union imports is complicating the central bank’s interest-rate decision on Thursday (July 24).