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Canada’s economy is getting smoked. The Small Business Confidence Index has collapsed nearly 60% in just a few months. That’s ...

Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s, said he thinks the risk for a recession is “uncomfortably high” as the markets react ...

The definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative growth. “U.S. economic policy is expected to hold back trade, investment, job creation, consumption and growth here in Canada,” ...

An index created by Scott Baker of Northwestern University and colleagues shows that uncertainty about trade policy has shot ...

Analysts expect tariffs on the EU, a key trading partner for the U.S., to settle at around 18% as recession expectations hit ...

And the deadline is ticking down. Trump has said his month-long exemption on blanket tariffs for goods covered by the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) will run out April 2. That same day his ...

The head of the Bank of Canada is signalling a shift in how the central bank sets its key interest rate during trade ...

The premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, has lately been leading the charge against a different kind of storm that has rolled into ...

The 99% chance the U.S. Federal Reserve was going to hold interest rates steady as recession fears rose became a certainty.

Canada may not be alone in facing a Trump-induced recession this year. Economists at Desjardins Group say the U.S. economy is likely to face a contraction this year — prompting further rate cuts from ...

He’s a thin, tough man in his sixties. Or he could be in his fifties. When you’ve worked outside for years as a roofer and ...