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The Canadian employment market continues to gradually weaken – CIBC

CIBC economists dug through today’s Canadian employment report and see a jobs market that continuing to gradually weaken. The country added 8.8K compares compared to a -12.5K consensus but unemployment ticked up to 7.0% from 6.9%. “Trade sensitive areas such as manufacturing and transportation & warehousing unsurprisingly showed…

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Top US and China trade officials will meet Monday in London

Things are happening quickly on the China front and the US is sending its top-three trade officials in a push to move things along. Trump announces: I am pleased to announce that Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, and United States Trade Representative,…

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Walmart says the consumer is doing fine

No one has better data than Walmart and the CFO is just out saying that consumer spending has been ‘largely consistent’. I wouldn’t take it as gospel because Target threw up some red flags in earnings and Lululemon did today as well but I certainly wouldn’t bet against…

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