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In December, Canada's inflation rate came in at 1.83%, which means the Bank of Canada can keep cutting rates for the next four meetings, putting additional downward pressure on the Canadian dollar.
OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada's annual inflation rate unexpectedly dropped by a tick to 1.9% in November, driven by a broad-based slowdown in prices, while the consumer price index was unchanged on a ...
The COVID-19 pandemic had a deep impact on the Canadian economy, leading it into a recession. 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]
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]
We’ve already seen the impact of rising replacement costs in the premium hikes of 2023 and 2024 that were driven by overall inflation sparked by the pandemic’s disruption of global supply chains.
Under the inflation-targeting monetary policy that has been the cornerstone of Canada's monetary and fiscal policy since the early 1990s, the Bank of Canada sets an inflation target [87] [89] The inflation target was set at 2 per cent, which is the midpoint of an inflation range of 1 to 3 per cent. They established a set of inflation-reduction ...
Higher inflation could drive a steep sell-off in the bond market, according to Larry Fink. The BlackRock CEO thinks the 10-year Treasury yield could jump to 5.5%, the highest in about 25 years.
An August 2024 survey of inflation expectations showed consumers predicting 2.3% average inflation over the next three years, the lowest figure since the survey was created in 2013. [186] Following Trump's tariff threats, long-term inflation expectations rose to 3.3 percent in January 2025 from 3.0 percent in December, the highest level since ...