Oil and gas prices are rapidly rising around the world amid the U.S.-Israel war with Iran. Andrew Chang explains what’s driving the surge and why predicting the next moves in the oil market is so ...

Energy producer profits and government natural resource royalties rise alongside oil prices, and this is true for Canada and the U.S. as oil exporters. In Canada, the sector is smaller than a decade ...

Moreover, today, inflated prices are global, with equity valuations at historic highs across all major markets (the 12-month ...

Many affluent retail investors were drawn to the space by the high dividends on offer, with annualised total returns eclipsing 8 per cent over the past decade, according to S&P Global. The recent cuts ...

Macro shocks are a constant throughout time. The market impact is often dramatic in the short-term. Longer-term, outcomes vary depending on the level of optimism that was priced in when the shock hits ...

Distributions as a percentage of net asset value remained at 14% last year — the second-lowest level since the depths of the 2008 financial crisis, according to a new report from Bain & Co. And the ...

Real estate busts tend to be slow-moving, and then suddenly, all at once. Eight years after the US commercial market peak, the price discovery in current sales is wiping out years of prior price ...

Recently, more analysts and industry experts have been sounding this alarm. CIBC economists published a report last week noting that “the decline in homebuilding and falling home prices have ‘clear ...

The benchmark Canadian home resale price has fallen more than 21% in nominal terms (25-30% in real terms) from the 2022 cycle peak (shown below since 2020). But new home prices have fallen just 8% ...

Residential real estate is the most widely owned and highly leveraged asset class for households. For these reasons, housing cycles have outsized effects on consumer confidence, spending, the economy ...