The financial services sector made a strong showing in 2013, and portfolio managers expect that many companies, including banks and insurers, will benefit from healthy…
After a year of strong recovery in several world markets, fund portfolio managers are focused on continuing to benefit from the economic recovery. But there…
Canada’s small-capitalization equities market is unlikely to be particularly strong in 2014. “I would be tempering my return expectations to look for below historical averages,”…
The current downward trend in gold bullion prices could continue, especially if the global economic recovery accelerates and political threats abate. But some pessimists expect…
The bull market that ran rampant in the U.S. in 2013 will face some challenges in the year ahead, but U.S. stocks are expected to…
While growth rates have slowed from their peaks, Asia's markets outside China continue to expand at a world-beating pace. Exporting countries remain vulnerable to the…
Recent figures show a healthier rate of economic growth than earlier last year, when a slowdown looked to be in the cards for the globe's…
The Continent is still appealing, but portfolio managers caution that investors need to pick and choose, and that some countries still are struggling to extricate…
Excess capacity, combined with high unemployment, is keeping the CPI in check in the industrialized world. Europe, meanwhile, is flirting with deflation
The government is confronting its long-standing deflation, with an aggressive tax policy and labour reform. Many portfolio managers are optimistic about the effects of the…
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