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Sovereign rating outlooks brighter for 2022: Fitch article image A silhouetted businessman stands on top of a mountain peak and looks into the distance with a spyglass in front of a dramatic sunset in the distance

Sovereign rating outlooks brighter for 2022: Fitch

Bank of Canada stands pat on key interest rate target

SMEs gave women smaller raises than men in 2021: survey article image man and woman facing easy and difficult staircases

SMEs gave women smaller raises than men in 2021: survey

Canadian business owners upbeat for 2022: BDC outlook survey article image binoculars

Canadian business owners upbeat for 2022: BDC outlook survey

Despite the hype, investors’ ESG interest hasn’t grown article image challenge-obstacle

Despite the hype, investors’ ESG interest hasn’t grown

  • By: Katie Keir
  • December 8, 2021 December 8, 2021
  • 05:00

U.S. economists split on rate hike timing

Rates on hold for now, but likely not for long article image Wooden blocks with percentage sign and arrow up, financial growth, interest rate increase, inflation concept

Rates on hold for now, but likely not for long

Statistics Canada says the merchandise trade surplus in October grew to $2.1B

Latest data point to strong Q4: Scotiabank article image a man on a precipice

Latest data point to strong Q4: Scotiabank

US jobless rate sinks to 4.2% as many more people find jobs

Jobless rate drops to 6% in November as number of long-term unemployed falls article image angry client meeting

Jobless rate drops to 6% in November as number of long-term unemployed falls

One in four Canadian shoppers overshot their Black Friday budget

Toronto region home sales top November record

Insolvencies down again in October article image Direction of stock market.opportunity time.buy and sell.change for chance.positive thinking

Insolvencies down again in October

Recovery supports global bank outlook for 2022: Moody’s article image Modern urban skyscrapers in downtown Chicago from below to the blue summer sky. Sun reflecting in the glass facades of the urban futuristic buildings. Chicago, Illinois, USA

Recovery supports global bank outlook for 2022: Moody’s

Fed “not at all sure” inflation will fade next year, Powell says

November delivers another hit to sinking consumer confidence

Asset managers turn to alt data on supply chains article image foreign country with stock market data

Asset managers turn to alt data on supply chains

Statistics Canada says GDP grew at 5.4% annual rate in Q3 article image Man and woman sitting in cafeteria discussing finance for the month. Stressed couple looking at bills sitting in restaurant wearing uniform apron. Cafe staff sitting together looking at expenses and bills. (Man and woman sitting in cafeteria discussi

Statistics Canada says GDP grew at 5.4% annual rate in Q3

Most manufacturers facing more acute labour shortage than last year: survey article image Steel worker on CNC plasma cutter machine

Most manufacturers facing more acute labour shortage than last year: survey

Powell says Fed may accelerate pullback in economic support

Omicron variant a concern, not a calamity: Fitch article image face mask covid19

Omicron variant a concern, not a calamity: Fitch