Santa Claus is Coming to Town

While both the S&P 500 and S&P/TSX Composite Index are flat so far this month, December is historically a great month for stocks.  In fact, over the last hundred years, the only decade to post a negative median return during December was in the 1930s. All decades since — from the 1940s until the 2020s […]

Would Fewer Earnings Reports Mean More Market Volatility?

President Donald Trump is once again floating the idea of cutting the number of corporate earnings reports in half — from four to two per year. The proposal, first raised during his presidency in 2018, would have U.S. public companies report every six months instead of quarterly. While it may sound like a way to […]