John Clinkard
Spending on residential renovation makes up just over a third of total residenti...
Spending on residential renovation makes up just over a third of total residenti...
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Seasonally adjusted sales of existing homes in the Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH...
ConstructConnect reported the top ten nonresidential construction starts by doll...
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Hiring cools in province but remains in positive territory Last fall, when we...
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The fact Canada’s unemployment rate hit a 25-month high in March should not surp...
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While recently released data on the Alberta economy still paints a mixed picture...
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As it regularly does at the end of February, Statistics Canada released the resu...
According to the government department, Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship C...
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A higher policy-setting interest rate, which the Bank of Canada has raised to a...
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The negative impact of higher interest rates on U.S. housing starts has been dis...
Diverging market forces will require business leaders to navigate the co...
In 2021 and the first half of 2022, there were what might be termed ‘freakish’ y...
After posting a year-over-year increase of +22.9% in Q1 2022, a 40-year high, re...
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In 2023, weak resource exports hobble the wheat province After posting a cou...
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Tighter-for-longer monetary policy The Organization for Economic Co-ope...
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Rising office vacancy rates due to glut of empty space According to Cus...
The latest Employment Situation Report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics speak...
The most recent (August) building permit numbers released by Statistics Canada r...
In March, 2022, Prime Minister Trudeau announced the country’s 2030 Emission Red...
Quebec's housing market is bearing the brunt of the steady increase in interest...
The month-to-month descending path of U.S. housing starts due to progressive inc...
The Federal Reserve and the Bank of Canada have both held the line on interest r...
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August was a good month for jobs creation in Canada’s construction sector, accor...
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In 2022, Canada welcomed 1,007,557 international immigrants, more than twice the...
The U.S. economy grew by +2.0% in the first quarter of this year and by +2.4% in...
The headline number for U.S. jobs growth in August, from today’s release of the...
Recent forecasts of global economic activity by the World Bank, the Internationa...
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Try thinking like a central banker. Your main goal at the moment is to bring dow...
In the Fall of last year, considerable anxiety was induced among investors when...
As my colleague, Michael Guckes, is wont to say, every economic cycle is differe...
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The recent ratification of a second (revised) agreement between the Internationa...
There are several reasons for highlighting upcoming large projects. Such jobs ha...
So far, minimally deterred by the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes, the une...
Joy was expressed by economic commentators when the Bureau of Labor Statistics (...
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It’s as if they knew. The Bank of Canada just raised its key policy-setting inte...
Neither the U.S. nor Canadian economies have slowed enough to fully satisfy the...
At first glance, the fact that total sales of battery electric vehicles (BEVs),...
What’s not to like about May’s upbeat Employment Situation Report from the Burea...
An expected fallout from higher interest rates is a decline in housing starts. I...
There are several reasons for highlighting upcoming large projects. Such jobs ha...
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The near-term outlook for the Nova Scotia economy is similar to what it was a ye...
Similar to what has been occurring in the United States, labour market condition...
There are several reasons for highlighting upcoming large projects. Such jobs ha...
Once again, there was no dramatically negative change in the U.S. labor market s...
What’s that you say? There’s a ‘bull’ stock market underway! Yes, indeed, and it...
Much of my work-related conversation over the past year-plus has concerned the p...
Driven by a 600,000 square foot increase in new office space, a 4.0 million squa...
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While some forward-looking indicators of economic activity in Ontario are flashi...
During March just passed, the DJI 30 index moved +1.9%; the S&P 500, +3.5%;...
There’s a shorthand way of looking at some of the key implications for the const...
As a companion piece to ConstructConnect’s recent article on movements in U.S. c...
In 2021 and continuing into early 2022, construction material costs, with the pa...
Upward revisions to resource investment in 2022 Statistics Canada’s latest (202...
Where are we on the recession watch? In a nutshell, the flow of events is confus...
There are several reasons for highlighting upcoming large projects. Such jobs ha...
Today, the Federal Reserve has chosen the middle path in raising its policy-sett...
Much of Canadian construction activity ties to extraction (or harvesting) of the...
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According to Statistics Canada’s recently released population data for sub-provi...
At +311,000, the U.S. number on net jobs creation in February, as calculated by...
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Since the Spring of last year, monthly total U.S. housing starts (annualized) ha...
Global inflation may be cooling, but it’s not cold From a global perspective, i...
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The dreaded and ballyhooed recession remains at bay for the moment. In fact, muc...
2022 snapshot US construction starts grew 16.7% in 2022 to $912 billion. A re...
In January, the U.S. recorded a big employment increase, +517,000 jobs. In the s...
While the drag on growth due to higher interest rates has prompted us to turn do...
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As a follow-up to an article on U.S. construction material costs, the table and...
The U.S. total number of jobs count rose by more than half a million in January,...
Graph 1 below shows the moderation in construction material costs that has been...
Statistics Canada has just released population estimates for sub-provincial area...
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Following a gain of 285,000 individuals in the second quarter of 2022, Canada’s...
Fighting through the headwinds of more restrictive interest rates, the U.S. econ...
Given the increases in mortgage rates that have transpired, significant slides i...
Global economic climate not deteriorating as quickly as expected Forecasts prod...
Canada has become much more than a natural resource-based economy. Nevertheless...
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Much of the world may be taking a break as yearend approaches, but that doesn’t...
As the U.S. added 263,000 jobs in November, Canada stood by and watched in awe....
A Change has Come Over Stock Markets Earlier this year, a terrible gloom descen...
Some of the factors that have been driving rapid price inflation are relenting....
The close linkage between sales of existing homes and housing starts which has g...
Once again, there was little wrong with the U.S. labor market picture in the jus...
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The current year, 2022, is shaping up to be the best ever for mega project initi...
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The two items at the top of the economic news during the final week of October a...
The U.S. and Canadian central banks are determined to slow their economies enoug...
After a string of months with barely positive or back-tracking employment change...
ConstructConnect’s annual construction starts statistics for ‘bricks and mortar’...
In its just-released Fiscal and Economic Update, the government of Newfoundland...
A month ago, the Employment Situation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
North America’s major stock markets sailed through the latest October in fine fe...
After a gloomy patch in late summer and early fall, dominated by discussion of i...
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The fact employment in the construction industry has contracted in four of the p...
Consumer spending, housing and exports fueled 2021 growth New Brunswick’s econo...
September’s Employment Situation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS...
With the Federal Reserve putting on a grim face and expressing a firm resolve to...
A strange thing is happening with the U.S. foreign trade balance. It’s improving...
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There are aspects to the current inflation problem that deserve an airing. Firs...
On family trips, one of the most frequently voiced questions by my children was,...
In the U.S., the Federal Reserve has just raised its key policy setting interest...
There will be a lot riding on the hoped-for success of the U.S. manufacturing se...
Statistics Canada’s August Labour Force Survey report was a ‘downer’. It set out...
Fueled almost totally by sustained strong growth of net international migration,...
The other day, I wrote about U.S. city labor markets. Today’s article presents t...
It’s always helpful to know which U.S. cities have the hottest economies and one...
The total number-of-jobs count in the U.S. rose by +315,000 in August, according...
The great debate concerning whether the U.S. is already in recession or is about...
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine has handicapped and crippled the economies of bo...
Let’s jump right into a discussion of some of the more interesting numbers to ha...
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Changes are happening quickly with respect to costs and prices in the economy....
It’ll be hard for anyone to find much fault with July’s Employment Situation rep...
With the national office vacancy rate at a 25-year high of 15.5%, Canada's offic...
It seems everyone is talking about recession. Are we already in one? Should we p...
U.S. ‘real’ (i.e., inflation adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP) contracted b...
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You’ll often hear that the residential real estate market will be the first amon...
Economy May Have Hard Landing Next Year In our last update on the Canadian econ...
There’s no getting away from it, the opening sentence of a story on present econ...
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In the U.S. in June, according to the latest Employment Situation report from th...
Although overshadowed by a growing consensus that increases in interest rates wi...
In stock market parlance, a ‘bear’ market refers to a decline from recent peak o...
Triggered by mortgage rate increases, expectations concerning housing starts in...
The economy of Texas was a standout among states before the recent climb in ener...
There are several reasons for highlighting upcoming large projects. Such jobs ha...
Since climbing interest rates are a primary concern governing the outlook for co...
A year ago, Statistics Canada reported that the residential building constructio...
Climate changes incidents across Canada are forcing a rethink in government and...
The following is a companion piece to an earlier article on construction materia...
The enormous year-over-year increases in construction material costs evident in...
When challenged to make an economic or demographic size comparison, many of us u...
I usually write the monthly Nuggets report in bullet point form, but this time I...
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Despite the growing threat that rising interest rates will precipitate a North A...
I have a simple and straightforward way of rating U.S. major city labor markets....
The angst over whether all the talk about a possible looming recession may be af...
The graphic featured below maps ConstructConnect’s type-of-structure categories...
The importance of retail trade for the overall U.S. economy is readily apparent....
There are several reasons for highlighting upcoming large projects. Such jobs ha...
The prospect of slower growth and, quite possibly, a recession, will probably re...
Across Canada, prices are soaring for both renters and buyers as the housing mar...
If stagflation is to occur (i.e., a period of no or slow growth accompanied by h...
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The foreign trade picture in the U.S. has worsened considerably. The ‘goods’ tra...
There’s much subject matter to be wrestled with in the pool of recent public and...
Against a background of darkening prospects for Canada and the global economy, Q...
April was not a good period for stock markets. In North America, on a month-to-m...
Turmoil in the stock markets, an inflation rate that won’t quit and interest rat...
Table 1 is a one-place depiction of the key percentage-change metrics for the 20...
The breakouts in U.S. construction material input costs showed few signs of abat...
Existing home sales took a bit of a breather in March. After hitting a post-Omic...
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U.S. current (March) inflation of +8.5% year over year for the All-items Consume...
There are several reasons for highlighting upcoming large projects. Such jobs ha...
There’s much to cover, so let’s jump right into a discussion of the some of the...
Attack on Ukraine looms over global outlook Three recent developments are overs...
Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey for March speaks of a +73,000 month-to-m...
The three main U.S. stock market indices turned positive again during March, aft...
As reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in its latest Employment Sit...
Presently, there are a lot of negative factors in play. One might easily cite th...
There are several reasons for highlighting upcoming large projects. Such jobs ha...
This article is an exploration of where jobs are sprouting in the U.S. economy v...
After posting the second strongest annual economic gain among the ten provinces...
U.S. Permits Still Setting the Pace for Starts The average of seasonally adjust...
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(1) The latest inflation figure for the U.S., from the Bureau of Labor Statistic...
Capital spending rebounds, hits record high in 2021 Against the headwinds of...
Statistics Canada’s new Labour Force Survey report expels the bad memories from...
A few days ago, ConstructConnect posted an article on U.S. construction material...
February was another great month for jobs creation in the United States. Accordi...
When talking with developers and design firms these days, the discussion will qu...
When it comes to new residential construction in the U.S., building permit figur...
There are several reasons for highlighting upcoming large projects. Such jobs ha...
Canada and the United States are in inflationary bubbles. This assertion is conf...
General and sub-trade contractors have long been complaining that they can’t fin...
Consider this article an addendum to my usual monthly Nuggets report. Here are s...
As a month, February is habitually a few days short, but that doesn’t make it le...
As of January 31, 2022’s closing values, the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) regist...
Ontario’s response to the rapid onset of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in late...
In 2017, several years before the coronavirus health crisis, ‘bricks and mortar’...
It’ll be a red-letter day when U.S. total employment finally returns to the peak...
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The inflation-adjusted dollar volume of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) in 202...
Among America’s dozen most populous cities, the five with the lowest unemploymen...
Statistics Canada has just released population estimates for sub-provincial area...
Driven in large part by a 9% year-to-date rebound in investment in building cons...
There is much to discuss in this latest mid-month ‘Nuggets’ report, so let’s div...
Currently, there’s no letup in the rising tide of construction material costs....
+199,000 Net Jobs Gain in U.S. The increase in the total number of jobs...
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North America’s four major stock market indices experienced another year of outs...
Omicron! A word that is perfect for the times. It would be easy to imagine it or...
2021 was a good year for housing starts in the U.S. In Canada, it was an outstan...
Well before the pandemic, the construction sector was worrying over what was per...
Snapshot #5 (Outlook for non-residential investment brightest since 2018) at the...
To tackle a +6.8% year over year CPI inflation rate, the Federal Reserve has sta...
Estimates of U.S. ‘real’ (i.e., after inflation) gross domestic pro...
ConstructConnect announced today that November 2021's volume of construction sta...
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Despite the persisting negative impacts of COVID-driven travel restrictions, the...
The DJI, S&P 500, NASDAQ and TSX have been setting new record highs in each...
According to the latest Employment Situation Report issued by the Bureau of La...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
In the Spring and Summer of this year, a huge gap opened between construction bi...
The vertical bars in Graph 1 tell the story of housing starts in the U.S. The...
U.S. Retail Sales take Exuberant Route There are a lot of explanations for wh...
The major flooding in the Fraser Valley and the southern interior of British Col...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
The U.S. foreign trade deficit deteriorated further in the latest month, sinkin...
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Canadian construction starts year to date, as calculated by ConstructConnect, a...
Among ConstructConnect’s Top 10 project starts list for October are two t...
ConstructConnect announced today that October 2021's volume of construction star...
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The accompanying tables show the top 10 major upcoming Private and Government O...
Approaching the end of 2021, it is premature to say COVID-19 no longer poses a t...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
In October, the measure everyone looks to as a gauge of inflation, the Consumer...
The $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, even though the dollars going towards t...
The U.S. total jobs increase in October was +531,000 according to the latest Emp...
U.S. Housing Starts Up by a Fifth U.S. housing starts, as an average of the s...
Record ‘Goods’ Trade Deficit & Deterioration in ‘Services...
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With a 14-day case rate of 157 per 100,000 population vs 116 per 100,000 for the...
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An Excess of U.S. Retail Demand Consumer spending is about 70% of gross domes...
Concerning the cost of doing business, a lot of attention has been focused late...
This isn’t a hard point to make. A great deal of emphasis in coming years will b...
ConstructConnect announced today that September 2021's volume of construction st...
The sustained decline in the number of active COVID-19 cases in Toronto since mi...
There are two big stories from the September Jobs reports just released for the...
Graph 2 at the end of this article shows that the gap between high year-over-ye...
For the first time in nearly a year, the four major stock market indices featur...
U.S. Housing Starts Stay Elevated Construction activity in the U.S. is curren...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Two of the major themes that will be governing U.S. construction activity as th...
With many of the negative economic impacts of COVID-19 finally receding, surging...
The accompanying table records the 10 largest construction project starts in Can...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
It would be comforting to think the post-pandemic economic recovery will proceed...
ConstructConnect announced today that August 2021's volume of construction start...
The accompanying tables show the top 10 major upcoming educational and medical...
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According to Statistics Canada, the Canadian total jobs count climbed by +90,000...
The private sector bore the brunt of COVID-19’s first wave. Between February and...
U.S. Economy Stumbling Blocks A year and a half into the coronavirus health...
August’s Employment Situation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
Canada’s foreign trade picture brightened considerably in June. The nation’s mer...
The latest (July 2021) U.S. put-in-place construction spending numbers from the...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
The headlines are no longer screaming about steeply climbing lumber prices. The...
Against the ongoing headwind of COVID-19, Canada is attracting more internationa...
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The 14 graphs in this article set out how housing starts have been performing s...
The seven (potentially) standalone graphs in this article show how inflation,...
Top of mind for economic analysts these days is the question of how rapidly pri...
ConstructConnect announced today that July 2021's volume of construction starts,...
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As the U.S. and Canadian economies recover from horrific coronavirus-induced sl...
Saskatchewan’s total COVID-19 case count per thousand population though mid-Augu...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy requir...
The U.S. ‘real’ (i.e., after factoring out inflation) gross domesti...
Two-Thirds of U.S. Jobs Gain from Two Sectors July was an excellent month for...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
There are two major questions overhanging the economies of the U.S. and Canada....
Given that the Canadian and United States economies are joined at the hip, it is...
Texas is in a League of its Own Through the first half of 2021, the monthly a...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
The accompanying table records the 10 largest construction project starts in Can...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
This article focuses on the latest U.S. building material cost increases as laid...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Much is continuing to happen on the economic front. Let’s dig right in wi...
In June, Canada added nearly a quarter of a million net new jobs, according to...
This snapshot focuses on the persisting impact of the post-pandemic surge of res...
ConstructConnect announced today that June 2021's volume of construction starts,...
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Investment in the private sector, of which construction activity is a key compon...
This article consists of seven cluster charts of four graphs each, showing mont...
June was an excellent month for overall net jobs creation in the U.S., accordin...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
In recent weeks, I’ve written several articles dealing with U.S. outsized constr...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Bar and Restaurant Sales Recovery I don’t know why this hasn’t re...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Coming out of the pandemic, the U.S. economy is primed to ‘roar’, with GDP growt...
It appears there’s now an answer to the question posed in Snapshot #12, dated Ju...
The accompanying table records the 10 largest construction project starts in Can...
The ten graphs in this article update the latest housing starts information for...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
ConstructConnect’s Expansion Index ties to the inventory of all the projects the...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
The most accessible single-source resource on construction material price moveme...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
According to a monthly survey carried out for the Conference Board and The Busi...
ConstructConnect announced today that May 2021’s volume of construction starts,...
Clearly there are lingering COVID-19 clouds overshadowing the global outlook. Th...
Canada’s Labour Market Hopes on Hold In May, for the second month in a row, tot...
North America’s major stock market indices generally ended May in fine fa...
Big Grin Greets Big Pickup in Youth Employment In any pre-pandemic month, May...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
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The economic world is full of odd connections these days. A case in point is th...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Initial Jobless Claims and UI on Right Track This article features a quick over...
The accompanying table records the 10 largest construction project starts in Can...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
After posting double-digit percentage gains for the past eight consecutive years...
When presenting housing starts for the U.S. and Canada, the Census Bureau and C...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
In this, the latest mid-month Nuggets report, I’ll focus on three major a...
An important story that’s emerging in what are hopefully the winding-down days o...
ConstructConnect announced today that April 2021’s volume of construction starts...
With average house prices in the 10 provinces up by a minimum of +7% y/y (Newfou...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Coronavirus Continues Negative Influence Canada suffered a disappointing setbac...
A Number to Embrace with Enthusiasm April’s Employment Situation report...
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Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Four key factors have caused the B.C. economy to outperform the country as a who...
The construction sector is presently generating several big news stories. One re...
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Global Stock Market Improvements Broadly Based, Finally On the world economic s...
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The accompanying tables show the top 10 largest upcoming Residential and Transpo...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
This latest version of the mid-month Nuggets report, rather than proceeding in p...
Precipitous drop in net migration After hitting a 30-year high of +1.5% in 2019...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
ConstructConnect announced today that March 2021’s volume of construction starts...
Canada Benefitting from ‘Lower Base Level’ Effect The U.S. &lsquo...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), U.S. total employment...
ConstructConnect-OE’s GDP Projections on the Mark Government statistica...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Permits Still Exceeding Starts In the U.S., new home building, which seemed s...
You can probably learn more about what is happening in an economy by following...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
‘Almost but not quite’ is the best way to describe how close the Nova Scotia eco...
The accompanying table records the 10 largest construction project starts in Can...
Input Cost Increases Migrate Beyond Lumber At the same time as the depth of t...
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February’s Labour Force Survey results just released by Statistics Canada...
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Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
The accompanying table shows the top 10 major upcoming Hotel/Motel and Shopping...
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Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
The negative impact of COVID-19 on non-residential investment in 2020 was highli...
Housing & Share Price Wealth Advances For the past year, the news has b...
U.S. total employment in February rose by +379,000 jobs, according to the latest...
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Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
Due to the blows to the economy last year from coronavirus impacts, undertaking...
In mid-March of last year, the consequences of coronavirus infections stopped be...
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Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
The accompanying table records the 10 largest construction project starts in Can...
Due to its complexity, much of the subject matter concerning the economy require...
The ease with which the U.S. and Canadian economies recover from the coronavirus...
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As I sit writing this Nuggets report, it’s just after Valentine’s Day and we’re...
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Salt Lake City at Head of U.S. Labor Market Class As someone often called on to...
U.S. Jobs Claw-Back Ratio Doesn’t Budge The U.S. economy in the kick-of...
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Stock Markets: Has all the Bubbly been Baked In? In January 2021, with the coro...
8 Different Measures of Inflation, U.S. & Canada One chief determinant of...
With record new cases of COVID-19 leading the government to adopt measures to li...
Housing starts in the U.S. and Canada plunged during the several months of late...
The accompanying table records the 10 largest construction project starts in Can...
Key takeaways from the latest U.S. energy trade statistics are as follows:...
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Reflecting the depressing impact of COVID-19 on the demand for office space in C...
December 2020’s total employment figure in the U.S. declined by -140,000...
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In this week’s episode, Daily Commercial News and Journal of Commerce national m...
The U.S. economy may have been battered by the full-on return of the coronaviru...
It would be difficult to imagine a series of horrific events that could match th...
The accompanying table records the 10 largest construction project starts in Can...
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In U.S., a Quarter Million More Jobs Doesn’t Cut It According to the Bur...