Etiket: Bérubé
[Chronique de Gérard Bérubé] Make way for COP28 in Dubai
Make way for COP28… in the United Arab Emirates. Mixed results, timid progress, saving face if not saving the world… The 27e UN Climate Conference, where the oil lobby was…
[Chronique de Gérard Bérubé] The rehabilitated obligation
2022 has been a rather austere, if not hostile, year for fixed income investing. However, if it is true that a peak in interest rates seems to be looming over…
[Chronique de Gérard Bérubé] Interest rates at a peak?
Last week, we already saw signs of an imminent pause in the Bank of Canada’s decision to add 50 basis points to its key rate. In other words, it had…
[Chronique de Gérard Bérubé] Slow ESG disclosure
Canadian companies continue their slow and long journey towards adopting environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria. Their disclosure remains deficient, especially for indicators related to climate change. In the 2023…
[Chronique de Gérard Bérubé] FTX, another cryptodrama
It has already been written that the universe of digital assets is changing from crash to crash. The tremors are intended to be more systemic, being felt throughout the chain…
[Chronique Gérard Bérubé] This other inflation
The delay in the energy transition is a harbinger of market distortions that are set to increase and of extreme weather events that will intensify. One of the great economic…
[Chronique de Gérard Bérubé] Canadians are hurting from inflation
Behind the strong rebound in employment in October looms heightened distress. With wages struggling to protect against inflation and interest rates sinking ever further into the restrictive zone, more and…
Shadow cabinet of the PQ | Pascal Bérubé becomes parliamentary leader
(Quebec) The MP for Matane-Matapédia, Pascal Bérubé, an experienced parliamentarian who is undertaking his sixth term in the National Assembly, becomes parliamentary leader of the PQ opposition, a role he…
[La chronique de Gérard Bérubé] A strong opponent for the Fed
Inflation is an even tougher opponent than expected, and the Federal Reserve is more determined than ever to win the battle. As analysts expected, the U.S. central bank added another…
[Chronique de Gérard Bérubé] Oil in superprofits
Imperial Oil came to illustrate the phenomenon on Friday with the announcement of a 30% increase in its quarterly dividend and a buyback of up to $1.5 billion in shares.…
[Chronique de Gérard Bérubé] Meta what?
Meta’s share price has been on the wane this week, with its 25% drop on Thursday only darkening an already dark year for the stock market. Like other tech giants,…
[Chronique de Gérard Bérubé] Change of tone at the Bank of Canada
Should we believe or hope? It is possible to detect in the remarks used by the Bank of Canada that the 50 point increase in the key rate ordered on…
[Chronique de Gérard Bérubé] Towards a doubling of the real estate correction
Another increase in the Bank of Canada’s key rate is expected on Wednesday. The dominant scenario is for a total of 100 additional basis points by the end of 2022.…
“Truck balls”, Jérome Bérubé
Driven by his desire to finally be a man, to find and assume a masculinity that escapes him, the narrator of Couilles detrude takes the wheel and drives until “the…
[Chronique de Gérard Bérubé] Slow electric turn
Until the ban on the sale of new gasoline vehicles from 2035, the transition to zero emissions remains strongly influenced by the level of prices at the pump. As for…
[Chronique de Gérard Bérubé] Households are not coping
There is no respite for households after the drop in headline inflation in September for a third consecutive month. Even the inflationary impact of rising interest rates is making its…
[Chronique de Gérard Bérubé] Inflationary hesitation
Business and consumer inflation expectations are converging. Among the latter, however, the hesitation remains palpable, especially since they see themselves condemned to an erosion of their purchasing power within a…
[Chronique de Gérard Bérubé] The necessary monetary vise
Small discrepancy between the UN and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The first urges central banks to loosen the monetary noose, unlike the second, which believes that the inflationary threat…
[Chronique de Gérard Bérubé] Self-fulfilling recession?
It is true that by dint of talking about recession and preparing for it, but this time…. In a text from To have to published on Monday, the Chief Economist…
Time is running out to allow the Parti Québécois to retain its title of recognized parliamentary group, believes Pascal Bérubé.
The Parti Québécois must not be a collateral “victim” of “the battle between the Liberal Party and Québec solidaire”, pleads MP Pascal Bérubé, who urges Liberal leader Dominique Anglade to…