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Chained dollars is a method of adjusting real dollar amounts for inflation over time, to allow the comparison of figures from different years. [1] The U.S. Department of Commerce introduced the chained-dollar measure in 1996. It generally reflects dollar figures computed with 2012 as the base year. [2]
The annual inflation rate dropped to 1.8%, Statistics Canada said, slightly lower than expected and a tick below the prior month's 1.9%. ... The Canadian dollar was trading weaker by 0.90% to 1. ...
The Canadian dollar strengthened 0.1% to 1.40 per U.S. dollar, or 71.43 U.S. cents, after moving in a range of 1.3981 to 1.4045. ... The U.S. dollar weakened on Friday against a basket of major ...
Between 2018 and 2024, the administration recorded the seven highest years of per-person spending in Canada's history. By 2024, inflation-adjusted spending per person, excluding debt interest costs, reached $11,856, exceeding the 2007-09 financial crisis spending by 10.2% and World War II peak spending by 28.7%. [11]
The Canadian dollar strengthened against its U.S. counterpart on Friday as investors cheered U.S. inflation data, with the loonie paring its weekly decline after it was pressured by a more hawkish ...
A chained volume series is a series of economic data (such as GDP, GNP or similar kinds of data) from successive years, put in real (or constant, i.e. inflation- and deflation-adjusted) terms by computing the aggregate value of the measure (e.g. GDP or GNP) for each year using the prices of the preceding year, and then 'chain linking' the data together to obtain a time-series of figures from ...
Inflation in the value of the Canadian dollar has been fairly low since the 1990s. In 2007 the Canadian dollar rebounded, soaring 23% in value. [38] On September 28, 2007, the Canadian dollar closed above the U.S. dollar for the first time in 30 years, at US$1.0052. [43]
Consumer prices rose 6.7 per cent in March from the year before, says Statistics Canada.