I hope you had a great week – welcome to a new Weekend Reading edition that highlights the week that was for Canadian bank earnings to an end for the 2024 calendar year. TD did well to post higher ...

With a new US administration about to take office on January 20, 2025, it’s easy to imagine things like tariffs on US imports, an overheated US economy, etc. fuelling the rise of inflation.

Welcome to a new Weekend Reading edition that answers the question: should retirees buy dividend stocks over bonds? Before that headline article this week here are some recent reads from my site: As a ...

The average return of the U.S. stock market has been 8.5% per year over the past 152 years (1871 to 2023); note that this is ...

Lesley-Anne Scorgie is a Toronto-based personal finance columnist and a freelance contributor to various sites, including the Star / Toronto Star. @TorontoStar. This week, I read her holiday shopping ...

Some financial experts will argue budgets don’t work because you can’t possibly predict the future. They claim you can’t possibly set aside an accurate amount of money for various expenses that may or ...

Welcome to a new Weekend Reading edition that includes some TFSA year-end tips! Before those tips and other links, some recent reads and reminders: My wife started to work part-time earlier this year.