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The lenders have benefited from “a positive halo effect” from a “resource-rich economy, pro-business Carney government,” Bank of America analyst Ebrahim H. Poonawala said in a note. Those factors encouraged investors to look past Canada’s challenged job and housing markets, as well as uncertainty over the coming renegotiation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, he added.

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    30 days ago

    Thank goodness. I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night if I knew those poor bankers went hungry. I hope the current economic turmoil didn’t startle them too much.

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    29 days ago

    When have the big banks not reported healthy profits? They (with their political flunkeys) have created a system which has been designed to allow them to extract large amounts of money from the Canadian public with little or no risk.

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    29 days ago

    Boy there’s a surprise, the businesses that hold your money without paying you any interest while also investing that money, and lending that money (with interest), are doing just fine.