Reporting on Sherry

From Business News Network (BNN): Sherry Cooper, Chief Economist, Dominion Lending Centres, says there are no signs of widespread fraud in Canada’s mortgage industry. She joins BNN to discuss the role of regulators and financial institutions in preventing fraud.

China’s surprise move to devalue its currency will likely mean more pain for the battered Canadian economy. Stock markets in Canada and the United States fell sharply on the news that China had allowed the yuan to drop 2%. China made the unexpected decision for two reasons, said Sherry Cooper, chief economist at Dominion Lending…

The Canadian dollar took a double hit on Tuesday from devaluation of the Chinese currency and a fresh six-month low for oil, which slipped below $43. The loonie was at 76.13 cents US at mid-afternoon, down three quarters of a cent from Monday. It hit a low of 76.08 earlier in the day. But the…

“The debate over whether Canada is in a full-fledged recession will continue,” said Sherry Cooper, chief economist at Dominion Lending Centres. That leaves Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz in a wait-and-see pattern on future interest rate adjustments, following two cuts since the start of this year as the impact of the oil-price plunge began…

That wasn’t supposed to happen given our exports are now more competitive. What’s different this time, says economist Sherry Cooper, is that auto manufacturers — significant contributors to the Canadian economy who benefited from the veil of competitiveness provided by a low loonie in past recessions — are not the important economic contributors they once…

Dr. Sherry Cooper, chief economist, Dominion Lending Centres “What is particularly troubling about this one is that the main culprit for the decline in May GDP was manufacturing, a sector that was supposed to be boosted by the weak Canadian dollar. This portends badly for the expected recovery in the current quarter as manufacturing exports…

If Canada has a celebrity economist, it’s Sherry Cooper, whose high profile forecasts for BMO were required reading throughout the 1990s and 2000s. The Baltimore native began her career at the Federal Reserve Board and Fannie Mae in the U.S., before moving to Canada in 1983 to work for the brokerage firm Burns Fry (later…

With the Canadian dollar taking a beating, one leading economist believes foreign investors will flock to the Canadian real estate market to take advantage. “Certainly. The price of Canadian real estate has fallen in U.S. dollar terms and in terms of many other currencies as well,” Dr. Sherry Cooper, chief economist with Dominion Lending Centres…

The move by the Bank of Canada to cut its key interest rate will help consumers out a little, but experts say with rates already near record lows, it won’t mean much for individual borrowers. Canada’s big banks trimmed their prime rates by 0.15 percentage points to 2.7 per cent in the wake of the…

He chopped the key overnight interest rate by 25 basis points to 0.5% in the hope it will stimulate Canada’s contracting economy. But that’s the only thing the bank can do to stimulate an economy in recession. Poloz may quibble about using that term, but I’m with most experts who will call this spade a…