H&M Financial Blog

Who Let The Bulls Out?

The following is courtesy BMO Capital Markets and is posted with permission. Douglas Porter, CFA, Chief Economist Let’s be entirely clear. Just a little more than two weeks ago, global financial markets were reeling, with the S&P 500 close to full correction terrain for the first time in nearly three years, the TSX was down… Read more »

Equity Market Correction At Hand

by Scott Booth, CFA The following is courtesy TD Asset Management and is posted with permission. Equity markets have been under pressure in recent weeks and volatility has increased as worries about the outlook for global economic growth, geopolitical tensions, the looming end of quantitative easing (QE3) and the uncertainty over the timing of rate hikes from the… Read more »

Oktobermess

The latest view on the economy  by Douglas Porter, CFA, Chief Economist   The following is courtesy BMO Capital Markets and is posted with permission. In a wild week for financial markets, the challenge was isolating the main cause of the growing angst. Broad concerns about the global economy are clearly the driver, but we have to be… Read more »

Manulife to acquire Canadian operations of Standard Life

$4 billion deal deepens insurer’s Quebec presence and expands investment capabilities globally By IE Staff | September 03, 2014 17:35 Manulife Financial Corp. (TSX:MFC) Wednesday evening announced that its subsidiary, The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company (MLI), and Standard Life Oversea Holdings Limited, a subsidiary of Standard Life plc, have entered into an agreement under which MLI… Read more »

TD Asset Managment – The Year Ahead

The following is courtesy TD Asset Management and is posted with permission. That hum you heard in the background throughout 2013? That was emanating from the U.S. Treasury’s printing presses, which were running at full throttle to keep up with the $85 billion the U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed) was spending on long-term securities each month (“QE3”)…. Read more »