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Extreme weather driving up insurance premiums and deductibles

As extreme weather events spread across the globe, rising insurance costs and harder to get coverage are the new normal. Many strata owners are facing massive increases to their insurance premiums.  See:  Langley condo owners realing after strata insurance dedcutible jumps … Continue reading →

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Same old dogs and tricks driving risk markets in 2019

David Rosenberg, president of Rosenberg Research, explains why he thinks there’s still elevated risks of recession heading into 2020.  Here is a direct video link.

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Leaping finance costs are canary in coal mine for highly indebted corporate sector

Over the past 21 months, selling in ‘junk’ grade CCC corporate bonds has pushed their prices down and average yield up from 7.7% in February 2018 to 11.31% by November 2019—a massive 46% increase in borrowing costs for highly indebted … Continue reading →

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