To assist the Capital Markets and Retail Sales teams in serving their clients, LBS maintains a high-quality econimic research team.

• Carlos Leitao, chief economist and strategist and Sébastien Lavoie, economist of Laurentian Bank Securities, carry out specific studies of current economic issues, growth prospects and associated economic risks.

• Regular publications of the Research & Economics department include:
  

 - Reports on major economic trends in Canada and the United States
 - Daily comments on economic indicators
 - Economic forecasts for each province
 - Analysis of Canadian monetary and fiscal policy

• LBS clients have continuous access to our studies

• Our chief strategist and chief economist, Mr. Carlos Leitao, is the economics spokesperson fr the Laurentian Bank group as a whole.