“The war in the Middle East has increased volatility in global energy prices and financial markets, and heightened the risks to the global economy. The breadth and duration of the conflict, and hence ...

Among the usual results for the young (63% want to buy, 71% equate real estate with financial independence) was a measure of just how deep the fetish runs. The bank asked what level of sacrifice the ...

Stick a fork in it. Done like dinner. The latest government stats on jobs and the economy could hardly be worse, and must ...

Remember where you were in 2013? Maybe listening to US pop star Katy Perry, whose track ‘Roar’ was racing up the charts. Could you have imagined then that the young Canadian Liberal leader with nice ...

Sellers are shunning a race to that bottom. And now we have a scary war in the Middle East that could screw up any recovery ...

Finally! Some encouraging news on the inflation front. After the sharpest surge in prices since the early 1980s, inflation ...

Apparently unfazed over blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, Cody was into her knee. Big sniffs. “He must smell my pooch,” the unknown woman on the sidewalk offered. But they all say that. Dogs tend to ...

Susan’s been trying to sell a downtown townhouse (”It’s so cute”) since October. Two price cuts so far. Her realtor wants more. “I got a call from her yesterday,” Sue told me, “so a couple who looked ...

Conventional financial-planning wisdom says that you should always have the equivalent of three-to-six months’ salary tucked away somewhere safe to handle emergencies. I’ve heard this mantra since I ...