The Bank of Canada (BoC) is expected to increase its policy rate by 0.75% when it meets this Wednesday, and if that happens, our variable ...

The Bank of Canada (BoC) surprised markets last week with a super-sized 1.00% rate hike. Its policy rate now stands at 2.50%, a ...

I was away this weekend so there won’t be a new post this week, but I’ll be back next week as usual (after the long ...

The Canadian economy is in the midst of being weaned off record levels of fiscal spending and the lowest borrowing rates on record. We are ...

  Last week we received the latest Canada and US employment data for July, and it confirmed that our two labour markets continued along ...

  Our bond markets and our central banks are not on the same page right now. Both the US Federal Reserve (the Fed) and the Bank of Canada ...

All eyes will be on the Bank of Canada (BoC) when it meets this week. The Bank is expected to hike its policy rate by between 0.50% and ...

The Bank of Canada (BoC) raised its policy rate by 0.75% last Wednesday, and that means our variable-rate mortgages and home-equity ...

The Federal Reserve is expected to continue raising its policy rate when it meets this week. The bond futures market is pricing in a 0.75% ...

The US Federal Reserve raised its policy rate by another 0.75% last week, and, as I predicted in last week’s post, it also surprised ...