One of the casualties of the market volatility this week is the Canadian dollar. At the close of trading yesterday it was sitting below USD …
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Sask Job Picture Largely Unchanged in February
The employment picture in February in Saskatchewan didn’t change very much. We saw 500 new jobs generated – not too much difference from January - while the …
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Following A Counter-Cyclical Track
We are counter-cyclical or like a teeter-totter. We tend to work completely the opposite of what is going on in Ontario. When they’re up, we’re down and …
Ending with a Flourish
This province’s consumers had been the epitome of caution last year. Retail sales or consumer spending was virtually unchanged from the previous year through …
Median Income Levels Decline in Two Provinces Including Saskatchewan
We are getting to see the magnitude of the impact of the downturn in commodity prices now that we have some more recent data on income levels in …
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New Vehicle Sales Improve
There was a bit of sunshine in the December figures for new vehicle sales in this province. The pace of transactions involving big ticket items like cars and …