Hilliard’s Weekend Notebook


Thoughts, views and opinions as current events unfold: With topics taken from current market events and my latest book — When the Bubble Bursts: Surviving the Canadian Real Estate Crash (Dundurn: March 2015)  and my first book Investment Traps and How to Avoid Them (1999) — this short piece will give you unique and valuable insights filtered by my thirty-six years’ experience as an investment professional.
 

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Europe still dependent on Russian natural gas

Published by Hilliard MacBeth on Jun 29, 2018

Russia is the main supplier of natural gas to Germany and other parts of Europe. The largest Russian energy company, Gazprom, holds about 35% market share of natural gas imported into Europe in 2018. Will Germany and other European countries remain dependent... Read more
The fog of a trade war

Published by Hilliard MacBeth on Jun 22, 2018

Media references to an all-out global trade war are spiking. China and the U.S. exchange threats almost daily, with announcements of new tariffs on a wide range of goods like steel, aluminum and soybeans that are traded internationally. European countries... Read more
The Fed will keep hiking rates

Published by Hilliard MacBeth on Jun 15, 2018

The U.S. Federal Reserve hiked rates again and signaled that there will be more increases to come as the U.S. economy continues to gain strength. The second hike of this year came this week. Now most observers expect two more increases before 2018 draws... Read more
Mother nature, not a bubble

Published by Hilliard MacBeth on Jun 08, 2018

Canadian housing myths are plentiful. But a new myth popped up recently in the form of a suggestion that “mother nature” is pushing house prices higher in Vancouver and Toronto. Is “mother nature” driving house prices in those two large cities? Does that... Read more
Trudeau’s risky play with Trans Mountain

Published by Hilliard MacBeth on Jun 01, 2018

The government of Canada purchased the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMEP) for C$4.5 billion from Kinder Morgan Canada Limited. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made this controversial move despite substantial political and financial risks. This government... Read more