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Behavioural
The TSX Hit a Record High This Morning. That Is Exactly When Overconfidence Peaks.
The composite touched a fresh intraday record near midday, minutes before the Fed delivered a tone investors were not positioned for. The research on what happens between the high and the headline is specific and well documented.
Jun 17, 2026 6 min
Daily Thread
The Hormuz Deal Gave the BoC Permission to Cut and the Bond Market Said No
Oil collapsed 4% on the ceasefire. The five-year GoC barely moved. That gap is the most important signal in the Canadian market today, and nobody is talking about it.
Jun 16, 2026 5 min
Daily Thread
The BoC Is Free. The Question Is Whether Warsh Will Let It Move.
Oil down 5.5%, the 5-year yield at 3.01%, and the inflation constraint evaporating in real time. But the Fed meeting Wednesday changes the calculus before Macklem can act.
Jun 15, 2026 5 min
Economy
The BoC Just Got Its Off-Ramp
The June 10 hold statement left Governing Council a live wire in both directions. The US-Iran deal this morning cuts one of them. What the peace framework means for the July 15 decision and the Canadian rate path.
Jun 15, 2026 7 min
Market
Record Then Reversal: The TSX's Friday Anatomy and What It Means Monday
The TSX hit 35,217 Thursday, then shed 803 points Friday on a jobs report that repriced the Fed. The sector rotation inside that decline is the real story.
Jun 8, 2026 6 min
Economy
Two Days, Two Decisions: What the Jobs Report Means for Wednesday
A blowout U.S. payrolls print has repriced Fed expectations. The Bank of Canada decides in 48 hours with inflation at 2.8% and a domestic economy that cannot absorb a rate hike.
Jun 8, 2026 6 min
Daily Thread
The Banks Proved the Morning Right. The PCE Proved the Afternoon Wrong. The TSX Closed at the Intersection.
The day's synthesis: TD and NBC delivered the earnings the market needed. Then U.S. PCE inflation and the Hormuz MOU status together produced a closing read the morning could not have anticipated.
May 28, 2026 6 min
Daily Thread
Gold Sold Off While Oil Surged. That Is the Warsh Signal the Bank of Canada Has to Answer Before June 3.
The Trump-Xi summit produced framework language, not Hormuz progress. Kevin Warsh inherits the Fed chair today into an oil-at-$103 inflation environment. The traditional safe haven trade inverted. The implication for Macklem's June 3 decision is not what the morning frameworks could have seen.
May 15, 2026 7 min
Daily Thread
The Trump-Xi Hormuz Agreement Is a Win for American Tech and a Complication for Canadian Financials
The Beijing summit produced a headline the market priced as oil-bearish. But the Manulife miss and the Warsh confirmation, run through the morning's frameworks together, reveal a different and more durable pressure building on the TSX.
May 14, 2026 5 min
Economy
Warsh Takes the Wheel Into a Headwind
Kevin Warsh was confirmed as Federal Reserve chair Wednesday with the narrowest margin in the modern era. He inherits back-to-back inflation shocks and a central bank whose next move markets now price as more likely a hike than a cut. What it means for the Bank of Canada's June 10 decision.
May 14, 2026 6 min
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