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Surviving Hard Times Amid the Current Economic Storm

Surviving Hard Times Amid the Current Economic Storm
The Toronto Stock Exchange building on Bay Street, in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Chris Young
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Economic indicators are flashing red these days. Interest rates have risen from lows that were thought to be impossible for generations. In the United States, short-term interest rates have gone up to the point where one year’s rates are higher than longer-term bond yields. This is because market participants expect future rates to drop and the economy to go into a downturn.

Tom Czitron
Tom Czitron
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Tom Czitron is a former portfolio manager with more than four decades of investment experience, particularly in fixed income and asset mix strategy. He is a former lead manager of Royal Bank’s main bond fund.
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