commodities

While the Bank of Canada has generally said fundamentals drove the oil boom, there have been hints it saw other factors at play

China’s stock market frenzy masks a serious slowdown in the country’s economy, and that could mean even more pain for Canada

Given that we’re already in a slow-growth environment, the risk is stagnation in the economy, or something worse

How commodity prices and terms of trade explain the last two years of being stuck in limbo

Andrew Leach on a new report from the Pembina Institute and Equiterre

Here we go again, with ‘systemically important’

It’s not just about weaker demand, it’s about the end of a story investors have been betting on

Talk of trading access to water on an open market stirs controversy, but it’s already a reality in Alberta

‘Even though all booms are finite, this one could go on for some time’

The Canadian economy is booming and investors are flooding in. Is it too good to be true?

For the past decade, it has been difficult to pick-up a newspaper without reading a headline about China’s phenomenal economic growth and its impact on everything from oil prices to global food supplies. And thanks to our resource-based economy, Canada in particular has benefitted from the boom in commodity prices sparked by China’s seemingly insatiable appetite for oil and other raw materials. But what happens if China’s growth were to slow dramatically over the next few years?

All of Canada’s strengths are underpinned by the phenomenal commodity bull market