Geoff Zochodne
Financial Post
Toronto, ON, Canada
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Amid hot housing market, stretched borrowers may be stretching the truth to get loans
Suspicious income letters 'the most advanced employment fraud I've ever come across,' mortgage brokerage chief says → Read More
BMO sees pent-up demand driving an even better economic recovery
BMO’s outlook for U.S. and Canada growing increasingly more optimistic → Read More
TD Bank CEO pushes for policies to spur cash-flush consumers to spend 'pent up' demand
Public and private sectors 'have the opportunity to work together to rebuild even better,' shareholders told → Read More
Nuvei sees tailwinds in sports betting and crypto as payments processor looks to widen reach
Plans on beefing up its sales force in North America → Read More
When the stimulus stops: Economic danger points to watch when the 'punchbowl' is pulled away
COVID support will end — and when it does it could create a whole new set of problems for borrowers, investors and governments → Read More
Welcome to the 'fishbowl': As CPPIB assets grow, increased scrutiny may be the new normal
Its increasing influence means carrying out objectives becoming more fraught with political, public-relation pitfalls → Read More
CIBC, TD report Q1 earnings beat, making for Big Six bank clean sweep
All of Canada's top lenders managed to surpass earnings in the quarter → Read More
CIBC, TD report Q1 earnings beat, making for Big Six bank clean sweep
All of Canada's top lenders managed to surpass earnings in the quarter → Read More
BMO, Scotiabank see economic winds favouring U.S. amid speedier vaccine rollout
Canada's recovery may lag its southern neighbour by up to six months → Read More
BMO, Scotiabank open earnings season by beating profit expectations
Both boosted by drop in the amount of money set aside for bad loans → Read More
Everyone is talking up bitcoin as cryptocurrencies go mainstream
But some say this moment in the sun is more hype than substance → Read More
Tesla's bold move is putting Bitcoin on the mainstream corporate radar
If Apple dives into the digital currency world, it would be huge → Read More
Pandemic housing market to stay hot in 2021, but economists expect a hangover later in the year
Much is dependent on vaccine outcomes, interest rates and buyer psychology → Read More
Canada sees job gains in November, but December could reverse that trend
Pace of job recovery slows, and with fresh lockdowns could soon slip into decline → Read More
Big Six banks pull off clean sweep of earnings season, as CIBC and TD beat expectations
Article content Canada’s Big Six lenders pulled off a clean sweep of their fourth-quarter financial results, as both Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Toronto-Dominion Bank announced earnings on Thursday that topped analysts’ expectations even amid the conditions brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. TD reported an 80-per-cent increase in profit for its fourth quarter compared to a year… → Read More
RBC and National Bank keep Big Six winning streak alive with two more profit beats
Royal Bank earnings rise, but National's profit fell → Read More
Canadian tech jewel, Element AI to be snapped up by Silicon Valley software company
The artificial-intelligence firm has been backed by both the federal and Quebec governments → Read More
Big Six in solid financial shape, but pandemic pain to linger: analysts
Earnings seen to post 'sequential improvement' until 2022, when results should hit pre-2019 level → Read More
Biden presidency would calm but not cure trade troubles with U.S., business groups warn
Whoever wins, the U.S. is not going to be a champion of open markets → Read More
Canada's economic recovery heading towards an uncertain future after a sunny summer
Growth is sputtering and where we go from here depends on the virus → Read More