Author: Zulfiqar
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5 Things I am Watching Today: July 30th, 2025
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1. BANK OF CANADA – NO CUT EXPECTED There’s virtually zero chance the BoC cuts rates today. This comes at a time when the Canadian economy is clearly struggling. Why…
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5 Things I am Watching Today: July 28th, 2025
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Key Week for Markets 1. This is probably one of the most important weeks of the summer. There’s a lot happening and plenty of market‑moving data ahead. The U.S. has…
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5 Things I am Watching Today: July 25th, 2025
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Canadian Consumers Speaking With Their Loonies 1. Canadian retail sales dropped 1.1% in May compared to April (reported on July 24th). Early estimates for June suggest an increase—for now—but that’s…
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5 Things I am Watching Today: July 23rd, 2025.
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Trump Makes a Deal With Japan 1. The Trump administration has signed a trade deal with Japan. As part of the deal, Japan will pay a 15% reciprocal tariff and…
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5 Things I am Watching Today: July 22nd, 2025
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Meme Stock Frenzy Is Back? 1. Who remembers that $GME frenzy? Wild swings, so much talk about stock doubling, going to the moon, diamond hands and so on. Well, it…
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5 Things I am Watching Today: July 21st, 2025
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Canadians Getting Pessimistic This morning, the Bank of Canada released its Business Outlook Survey and Survey of Consumer Expectations. Businesses: They’re feeling a little less pressure. However, almost one-third of…
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5 Things I am Watching Today: Friday, July 18th, 2025
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U.S. Consumer Is Happier 1. Not too long ago, we got the preliminary reading on University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment – one of the top quoted sentiment consumer sentiment indicators.…
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5 Things I am Watching Today: July 17, 2025
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U.S. Consumer Is Strong? 1. This morning, we got U.S. retail sales. Headline figures were decent – up 0.6% month-over-month, and up 3.9% year-over-year. Digging in details: decent numbers too.…
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5 Things I am Watching Today: July 16th, 2025
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U.S. Producers Not Seeing As Much Inflation 1. In the U.S., while the consumer prices (CPI) has been trending up a little, inflation on producer level (PPI) isn’t showing much…
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5 Things I am Watching Today: July 15th, 2025
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Inflation In The U.S. 1. U.S. CPI rose 0.3% June, up 2.7% year-over-year. Relatively in line with what economists were predicting. Though, the rate has increased a little over the…
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5 Things I am Watching Today: July 14th, 2025
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Tariff Noise Loud Again 1. Over the last week, we learned all about how U.S. is going to be imposing tariffs on copper. Then, over the weekend we heard about…
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5 Things I am Watching Today: July 11th, 2025
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Every Economist Was Wrong In Canada 1. Stats Canada reported that over 83,000 jobs were added for the month of June, and unemployment rate dropped from 7% to 6.9%. Keep…
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5 Things I am Watching Today: July 10th, 2025
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Fed Expects Cut, Canadian Jobs Data Worth Watching 1. Fed meeting minutes yesterday showed that officials expect rate cut this year, but no one apparently is sure how many…nothing surprising…
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5 Things I Am Watching Today: July 9th, 2025
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Copper Surges To All-Time Highs 1. President Trump talking about putting 50% import tax on Copper. This caused price to surge to all-time highs, and it remains there. Will this…