Posts Tagged ‘Interest Rates’
Financial Post / Rechtshaffen: Five reasons why home prices will rise 10% in 2025
If you are considering buying, it is time to get busy. Today is an opportunity that will look cheap a year from now I aggressively predicted last year that the Bank of Canada would lower interest rates by two per cent and this would be the key theme of 2024. As it turns out, I…
Read MoreFinancial Post / Rechtshaffen: Investing for 6% income in a declining interest rate world
These days you need to look somewhere other than GICs and money market funds. Ted Rechtshaffen explores the options. The recent declines in Canadian interest rates have been a wonderful thing for some, but others are seeing their guaranteed investment returns rapidly decline. A top-rate guaranteed investment certificate (GIC) today pays 4.05 per cent for…
Read MoreFinancial Post / Rechtshaffen: How to yield 8% or more as your fixed income yields decline
High yield investments are still out there with only slightly higher risk than GICs and money market funds In the past 18 months, there has been a big migration of investment dollars to money markets, guaranteed investment certificates and short-term bonds — five per cent yields will do that. The problem is that they are…
Read MoreFinancial Post / Rechtshaffen: Big interest rate cuts ahead from the Bank of Canada if 2001 is any indication
They say that actions speak louder than words, and this definitely applies when it comes to the Bank of Canada. The central bank now forecasts the consumer price inflation (CPI) index will return to two per cent in mid-2025. If this two-year prediction causes you concern that policymakers won’t be lowering rates for two years,…
Read MoreResponse to U.S. Banking Concerns
Given the recent news about the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in the United States, we wanted to provide some comfort about your investment accounts with TriDelta Investment Counsel Inc. The reason we can provide this comfort is due to the much larger and more diversified banking system in Canada, and the…
Read MoreInterest Rates – what is happening, why it is happening, and what we are doing about it
In 2022 we saw a steep global rise in interest rates at a pace few could have ever expected. Even into 2023, many central banks are still indicating they are not finished and more needs to be done to bring stubbornly high inflation back to their 2% target. Heading into the new year many expected…
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