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Sean Cooper
Sean Cooper bought his first house when he was just 27 and paid off his mortgage at 30. An in-demand personal finance journalist, best-selling author and speaker, his articles have been featured in publications such as the Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, Financial Post, MoneySense and Tangerine’s Forward Thinking blog.
Members of our prediction panels
We gather expert predictions on the Bank of Canada base rate and cryptocurrency. We release the panels’ findings and quotes, and these have been covered in national news. Information from our reports has featured in Yahoo Finance, the Financial Post and Wealth Professional, among other sites and media outlets.
Recent prediction panel members are below.
Murshed Chowdhury
Murshed Chowhury is an Associate Professor at the University of New Brunswick.
Nikola Gradojevic
Nikola Gradojevic is a Professor of Finance at the University of Guelph.
Benjamin Reitzes
Benjamin Reitzes is the Managing Director, Canadian Rates & Macro Strategist at the Bank of Montreal.
Moshe Lander
Moshe Lander is a Senior Lecturer of Economics at Concordia University.
Sebastien Lavoie
Sébastien Lavoie is the Chief Economist at Laurentian Bank Financial Group.
Atif Kubursi
Atif Kubursi is Professor Emeritus of Economics at McMaster University.
Angelo Melino
Angelo Melino is a Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto.
Philip Cross
Philip Cross is a Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute.
Lars Osberg
Lars Osberg is McCulloch Professor of Economics at Dalhousie University in Halifax.
Carl Gomez
Carl Gomez is Chief Economist and Head of Market Analytics at CoStar Group.
Tony Stillo
Tony Stillo is the Director of Canada Economics at Oxford Economics.
Pierre Siklos
Pierre L. Siklos is Professor of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Derek Holt
Derek Holt is Vice President and Head of Capital Markets Economics at Scotiabank in Toronto.
Charles St-Arnaud
Charles St-Arnaud is Chief Economist at Alberta Central.
Avery Shenfeld
Avery Shenfeld is Managing Director and Chief Economist of CIBC Capital Markets.
Ethereum’s price performance is positively correlated to BTC and will benefit from similar market dynamics, though I believe ETH has a higher upside percent return potential.
Ryan Grace, Head of Digital Assets at tastylive
Enough progress has been made on inflation to begin to ease up a bit on monetary restraint… we want to avoid leaning against economic growth by any more than is necessary to achieve the inflation target.
Avery Shenfeld, Managing Director and Chief Economist of CIBC Capital Markets
BOC needs to be proactive and not reactive. It cannot wait until the economy is contracting to change its rate, it has to act before the economy starts to contract.
Atif Kubursi, Professor Emeritus of Economics at McMaster University
The recent bitcoin price movement shows the impact of the newly launched ETFs. Now that a new ATH has been achieved, I suspect more buyers will flood the market and push $BTC even higher.
Pedro Febrero, VP of Web3 at RealFevr
The Bank has been sending signals for months that it is ready to start cutting its policy rate once it is comfortable that inflation will stay below the three percent upper limit.
Moshe Lander, Senior Lecturer of Economics at Concordia University