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Surging oil and wheat prices are allowing commodities exporter Canada to weather an economic storm threatening to tip many of its fellow G7 rich nations into recession. Russia's invasion of ...
Experts also warn that stiff U.S. tariffs would likely push the Canadian economy into a recession in 2025, causing a spike in inflation and forcing the Bank of Canada to pause interest rate cuts ...
The economy expanded by 0.4% in August, missing estimates, and looked set to show no growth in September, when supply chain issues crimped auto exports and retail sales declined, Statistics Canada ...
From 2003 to 2018, Canada saw an increase in home and property prices of up to 337% in some cities. [2] In 2016, the OECD warned that Canada's financial stability was at risk due to elevated housing prices, investment and household debt. [3] By 2018, home-owning costs were above 1990 levels when Canada saw its last housing bubble burst. [4]
The government's social distancing rules had the effect of limiting economic activity in the country. Companies started mass layoffs of workers, and Canada's unemployment rate was 13.5 percent in May 2020, the highest it has been since 1976. [1] Many large-scale events that planned to take place in 2020 in Canada were cancelled or delayed.
The Canadian economy grew by a surprise 0.3 percent in January, reversing recent declines as the construction and manufacturing sectors picked up, and likely leaving the Bank of Canada on the ...
While Canada's ten provinces and three territories exhibit high per capita GDPs, there is wide variation among them. Ontario , the country's most populous province, is a major manufacturing and trade hub with extensive linkages to the northeastern and midwestern United States .
Canadian factory sales most likely rose 1.3% in October from September, largely driven by higher sales in petroleum and coal product as well as transportation equipment subsectors, Statistics ...