August 8, 2019/IMFBlog By Emanuel Kopp, Daniel Leigh, and Suchanan Tambunlertchai US business investment has been on the rise. Since the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act at the end of 2017, US businesses have bought more machinery, developed software, and created new intellectual property. Some believe that […]

August 7, 2019/IMFBlog By IMFBlog Following a period of escalating prices, Canada’s housing market is cooling. Measures designed to strengthen financial stability such as more stringent tests of borrowers’ ability to repay their loans, along with higher interest rates, combined to make mortgage financing more expensive. As a result, residential […]

August 6, 2019/OilPrice.com Chart of the Week –    For five consecutive days in July, U.S. natural gas consumption exceeded the previous record high – 43.1 Bcf last set on July 16, 2018.  –    A heat wave in the U.S. pushed up demand, but the structural backdrop has been climbing for […]