US and Canadian bond yields continued their seemingly inexorable rise last week. This time the catalyst was the latest US inflation data, ...

Last week we received the latest US inflation and Canadian employment data, and the Bank of Canada (BoC) issued its latest Financial System ...

Let’s try something different this week. Instead of reporting on rate hikes and soaring bond yields, let’s imagine that Bank of Canada ...

Statistics Canada confirmed that our overall Consumer Price Index (CPI) surged higher again last month, up from 6.8% in April to 7.7% in ...

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 ...