Wondering how or if to invest in the stock market this year? Our experts will be answering your questions on Thursday.Jeenah Moon/Reuters
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It’s been a busy start to the year, to say the least. U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening tariffs (again) against countries that don’t go along with his plans to overtake Greenland. The U.S. military assault on the Maduro regime in Venezuela has put Canada’s energy sector on high alert. And the Trump administration’s opening of a criminal probe of Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell drew strong condemnation from the Fed chief himself, who suggested this was a pretext to influence interest rates.
Meanwhile, the TSX hit a record high last week and December inflation came in slightly hotter than expected, largely due to base year effects. Pair that with the slack in the labour market and that gives little reason for the Bank of Canada to budge on interest rates, for now. All of which to say that people rightfully have a lot of money questions right about now.
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