Author: Sherry Cooper

TORONTO, ON, December 10, 2012 – After a distinguished 30-year career at BMO Financial Group, Dr. Sherry Cooper, Executive Vice-President and Chief Economist, has decided to retire from the Bank, effective January 30, 2013. An award-winning economist and best-selling author, Dr. Cooper has led BMO’s respected team of economists since 2006. “Sherry has built a…

The first thing Sherry Cooper plans to do after she leaves her job is take a month off “and get my head around not having to come to First Canadian Place every day and then, you know, I’ll be open to different things, different opportunities.” After 30 years at Bank of Montreal, Ms. Cooper, 62,…

Sherry Cooper’s latest article on U.S. fiscal policy is available as an Adobe Acrobat document through this link from BMO Capital Markets Economics.

With much of the focus in Washington on the fiscal cliff, which is now only one month away, a potentially more important cliffhanger is the debt-ceiling debate—likely to come to its precipice in February 2013.

Sherry Cooper’s latest article on the U.S. fiscal cliff is available as an Adobe Acrobat document through this link from BMO Capital Markets Economics.  

We have reduced our Canadian growth estimate to a mere 1% in the third quarter owing to a contraction in residential construction and business investment in machinery and equipment.

VUCA is an acronym used to describe the volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of the world today. Its usage began in the late 1990s and comes from the American military lexicon to describe the extreme conditions in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Canada’s growth pace has slowed to barely reach the 2% threshold even with some impressive job gains recently, yet the Bank of Canada retains a moderate tightening bias.

September is turning out to be a much better month for the stock market than many had feared, boosted in large measure by the gradual dissipation of uncertainty. To be sure, risks remain and the future is far from clear.

Many people are asking this question. Even Republican pundits are suggesting that Romney is blowing what should be an easy ride to the White House.