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The Daily Ledger
Start your morning ahead of the markets. The Daily Ledger is your daily briefing on Canadian and U.S. business and finance: Bay Street and Wall Street, interest rates and mortgages, earnings, energy, tech, and the stories that actually move money. Hosts Alex and Jordan cut through the noise with clear takeaways and a light touch, in about 30 minutes. Built for brokers, investors, and business leaders who want to sound like they read everything, because they listened to this. New episodes every…
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CoreWeave Rescues the Rally, Nvidia Loses It After Hours, and the Bond Market Comes Back to Work
CoreWeave surged twenty-four point seven percent and revived the A I trade after its earnings, but Nvidia plunged after hours on reports its board is weighing…
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Hot Inflation Puts Fifty on the Table, Nvidia's Deadline Day, and CoreWeave Pays the Interest Bill
October inflation ran hot for a third straight month, with core prices up 0.3 percent landing exactly on the line Fed Governor Waller set for considering a…
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Best Day Since April, Oil Below Ninety-Two, and an Inflation Report With No Year Attached
Wall Street posted its best day since April on Monday, with the S and P 500 up 2.35 percent and Toronto up 1.84 percent as oil slid on U.S.-Iran restraint, and…
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Nvidia's Board Asks Questions, Asia Buys the Dip, and Oil Slips Below Ninety-Seven Dollars
Nvidia's board launched an independent investigation into reports its chief executive was targeted by a foreign intelligence effort, sending the stock down…
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Abel Spends the Pile: Berkshire Buys Back, Canadian Natural Cashes In, and Tuesday Decides December
Berkshire Hathaway's first autumn report under Greg Abel showed operating profit down six percent but a nine point six billion dollar buyback and a three…
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One Hundred Sixty-Five Thousand Reasons: Hot U.S. Jobs, Canada Sheds Jobs, and the Chips Bounce
U.S. employers added 165,000 jobs in October, nearly triple the forecast, lifting December Fed hike odds to about 78 percent, while Canada lost jobs for a…
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The Rally Erased: Nasdaq in Correction, Oil Bounces Back, and Canada's Sixty-Two Billion Dollar Deficit
Wall Street erased Wednesday's election rally on Thursday as the Dow fell 1,833 points, the Nasdaq slid into a correction on a 12.25 percent chip rout, and…
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The Dow's 1,569-Point Party, Oil Below $95, and CVS Splits in Two
The Dow surged 1,569 points in its best day since April 2025 as gridlock relief followed the Democratic sweep, while Brent crude crashed below 95 dollars on…
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Democrats Sweep Congress, AMD's Seventeen Billion Dollar Guide, and Shopify's Miss
Democrats swept both the House and the Senate in the U.S. midterms, with Senate flips in Texas, Kansas, South Carolina, North Carolina and Ohio, while stock…
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Election Day, Apple's Margin Warning, and Oil's Round Trip
Americans vote in the midterm elections with prediction markets leaning toward a Democratic sweep and strategists gaming out every combination of Congress…
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Oil Falls on Doha Diplomacy, Binance Pays Out, and Apple Faces the Margin Test
Oil slid more than three percent and U.S. futures rebounded as Qatar brokered a third day of U.S.-Iran talks on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, while OPEC plus…
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Binance Reopens, OPEC Plus Holds, and a Week With Everything In It
Binance resumed withdrawals on Sunday after covering ninety-five percent of the six point three billion dollars stolen in the largest crypto heist ever, which…
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Intel's Worst Day Since 1974 Caps the AI Rout
Intel plunged twenty-eight point six percent in its worst session since nineteen seventy-four, dragging the Nasdaq down two point nine percent, while Amazon's…
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Alphabet's Record Fall, Amazon's Cloud Surge, and an Economy Arguing for a Hike
Alphabet lost about five hundred billion dollars in its worst day ever as the market punished negative free cash flow, even as nine of eleven sectors rose and…
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Canada Hikes, the Fed Warns, and Microsoft Wins the AI Cash Test
The Bank of Canada raised its policy rate to two point five percent, its first hike since twenty twenty three, lifting prime toward four point seven percent…
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Decision Day in Ottawa and Washington: Chips Rally, Boeing Sinks, and the AI Bill Gets Financed
The Bank of Canada is expected to deliver its first rate hike since twenty twenty three this morning, lifting prime toward four point seven percent, while the…
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Anthropic Files, Celestica Soars, and Brazil Crashes: The Eve of Two Rate Decisions
Anthropic's public IPO filing revived the AI trade on Monday, with first-half revenue of $16.3 billion, while Toronto's Celestica crushed its guidance and…
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The Daily Ledger: Official Trailer
Every morning, before the opening bell, the world moves money. Central banks decide, markets react, and a single headline can move billions. The Daily Ledger…
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Oil Eases, Brazil Shakes Markets, and Wednesday Brings Two Rate Decisions
Oil eased about two percent to near one hundred fourteen dollars on Monday even as Houthi attacks on Saudi targets continued, while Brazil's reelection of Lula…
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Missiles, Two Central Banks, and the AI Bill: The Week Ahead
Houthi claims of strikes on Saudi refineries and the East-West Pipeline leave oil's Sunday night reopen hanging on unconfirmed reports, with Brent settled at…
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Oil Tops 116 Dollars, the Dow Drops 653, and Canada Spends Anyway
Brent settled at 116 dollars and 72 cents and the Dow fell 653 points to end a turbulent week, while energy stocks and SLB cashed in and American Express beat…
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The AI Bill Comes Due: Nasdaq Slides, Oil Tops 113 Dollars, and a Rate Hike Looms
The big tech selloff, and how Meta's spending spree helped trigger it. Brent crude settles above 113 dollars, and what that does to inflation, bonds, and your…
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Meta Pops, Tesla Drops: The Billion Shield and a Rate Hike on Deck
Meta pops and Tesla drops after earnings, with a nearly ten-billion-dollar legal charge hiding inside Meta's numbers. Ottawa and Ontario roll out a…
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Dow Leads, SpaceX Soars: Tuesday's Earnings Shake-Up
The Dow rips 500 points as old-economy stocks remind everyone they still exist, and SpaceX soars. Netflix beats on profit and gets punished anyway, because…
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Tech Roars Back, Bay Street Slumps: Monday's Money Recap
Tech roars back on Wall Street, but the breadth underneath looks shaky. Canada's inflation prints at 3.1 percent, and what it means for the Bank of Canada…