Condolences to anyone trying to put on an event that happens to fall on the same night as a Toronto Blue Jays game. I’ve already been warned that we have a hard stop on Halloween if it goes to Game 6 in the World Series.

It is a catalyst-heavy week. Canada and the United States have interest rate decisions, earnings ramp up in earnest on the Toronto Stock Exchange with 52 companies reporting, and the parade continues with 172 companies on the S&P 500 also reporting results. Here are the most interesting things to watch:

Addition by subtraction: The Bank of Canada and the U.S. Federal Reserve are both expected to cut rates Wednesday. For the Bank of Canada, that would be despite the fact that we had a huge surge in employment in October and headline inflation is at the highest level si

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