John Macfarlane
Senior Reporter at Yahoo Finance
Award-winning journalist, editor, TV & digital producer. Appreciator of film, nerdy literature & essays, & people who are nice. Yahoo Finance Canada reporter.
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1 week ago |
ca.finance.yahoo.com | John Macfarlane
Signs of deteriorating credit health among the most financially vulnerable Canadians are a “flashing signal,” credit analytics firm FICO says. New credit card data for the first quarter of 2025 show an increasing reliance on credit cards and more Canadians having trouble paying their balances, FICO says, with issues most pronounced among younger and “thin-file” borrowers — people without much of a credit history.
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1 week ago |
ca.finance.yahoo.com | John Macfarlane
Demand for premium office space in Canada’s biggest cities has been extraordinarily resilient, a new report from Colliers Canada says, dramatically outpacing the performance of lower-tier buildings as paradigm shifts continue to reshape work culture.
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1 week ago |
ca.finance.yahoo.com | John Macfarlane
A large majority of Canadians don’t want the “elbows up” movement to affect the returns of Canada’s largest pension fund, a new survey from the Angus Reid Institute says.
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2 weeks ago |
ca.finance.yahoo.com | John Macfarlane
Economists at Canada’s major banks have issued wildly different forecasts for the economy and the Bank of Canada’s next moves in recent days. The wide disparity of views is a reflection of the deep and ongoing uncertainty brought on by an evolving U.S. trade policy. On Thursday, RBC Economics updated its economic forecast to advise that it no longer expects any rate cuts from the Bank of Canada (BoC) in 2025, a position also taken by economists at Scotiabank.
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2 weeks ago |
ca.finance.yahoo.com | John Macfarlane
Falling condo prices and rents in Toronto and Vancouver are driving a construction slowdown and could frustrate longer-term efforts to ramp up overall housing supply in Canada, according to an analysis from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). Spurred by a range of factors, the weak condo markets in the two cities have seen sales plummet, just as scores of new completions keep adding to inventory.
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