“Pre-retirement” Canadians aged 50 to 59 are taking on an alarming amount of debt and are most at risk of bankruptcy, according to a new study tha...

Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney warned on Thursday the bank could raise interest rates if the growth in household debt doesn’t slow. It was a...

The banks aren't going to innovative. It wasn't Blockbuster that disrupted the movie rental business. It wasn't the record companies that revolutionized the music industry's business model. If we're going to find a solution, we need more startups introducing compelling alternatives.

OTTAWA - Canadian households continue to get into deeper debt, but the most recent data also offers a bit of a respite — credit accumulation is slow...

Canada’s economy has outperformed the U.S. for five years, but Canadians better prepare themselves for an equally long period of underperformance, s...

Retail sales over the crucial holiday season plunged a much larger than expected 2.1 per cent, Statistics Canada reported Friday. Economists had be...

In a country that prides itself on its social safety net, one could argue that the current personal debt story is really a story of an endangered future for the things we hold dear as a society. Will debt-ridden Canadians be supportive at election time of paying more in taxes to maintain universal health care?

TORONTO - A new report says the level of Canadian consumer debt at the end of 2012 — not counting mortgages — was up nearly six per cent from a ye...

MONTREAL -- An online poll has found that Canadians were planning to save almost $10,000 this year, but 66 per cent say they're tucking the money away...

TORONTO - Canadians are paying off their debts faster, with the number of those more than three months behind on loan payments dropping to a record lo...

Black Friday and Cyber Monday may be winning over an increasing number of Canadian shoppers, but November retail sales data are expected to show the m...

TORONTO — As Canadian officials issue repeated warnings about the perils of overborrowing amid troubling consumer debt levels, one quarter of respon...

TORONTO -- Canadians appear less concerned about retirement planning than in years past as they continue to focus on debt reduction as their main fina...

OTTAWA - Canadians are more in hock today than ever before, Statistics Canada said Thursday in releasing fresh data on household debt.The new report s...

Recent data revisions from Statistics Canada showed that Canadians are even more in debt than previously estimated. The average household debt in Cana...

Canadians, you’re more indebted than you think. Statistics Canada is busy re-evaluating economic data going back two decades as part of an effort...

TORONTO - A new poll suggests that most Canadians are quite comfortable with using debt as a financial strategy — at a time when debt loads have ris...

TORONTO - Canada's biggest banks have weathered the economic downturn better than their peers, but analysts expect that tightened consumer lending wil...

Canada’s fiscal policymakers are working to cool off the country’s overheated real estate market, tightening lending restrictions and warning buye...

TORONTO - Consumer debt growth was about 30 per cent lower in the second quarter than a year earlier — the biggest slowdown since before the recessi...

TORONTO - Canadians are continuing to heap on non-mortgage debt, despite warnings about the perils of cheap borrowing from top officials, according to...

More Canadians acknowledge they may be reaching the upper limits on borrowing, but they have yet to act on it, two new reports suggest.A survey releas...

With policymakers warning about rising household debt levels, a new survey shows that Canadians are both worried about what they owe, and in denial ab...

Some of Canada's top financial minds have warned that Canadians have been adding too much debt to the household balance sheets over the pa...