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“We do not believe that any of these will be the case, and so we are investing accordingly.”‘Outsized Gains’Andrew Kuske, an analyst with Credit Suisse, said he expects Brookfield’s transactional activity to accelerate in the back half of 2021 and into 2022.“On balance, the quarter is positive on continued growth in the underlying asset management business along with the validation of past investments with outsized gains being realized — even with some operating weakness,” Kuske said in a note to clients.Flatt said he believes there’s an opportunity to pick up infrastructure assets because governments have borrowed heavily to launch stimulus programs to combat the pandemic.

Excluding energy, the index is at an all-time high.But the currency also appears to have gotten a lift from Macklem’s messaging, after the Bank of Canada last month accelerated the timetable for a possible interest-rate increase and pared back its bond purchases.“Macklem only said that if the currency were to appreciate absent fundamental reasons, then they’d be more concerned about competitiveness implications but that so far that’s not the case,” Derek Holt, an economist at Bank of Nova Scotia, said by email.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.

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