The Bank of Canada (BoC) held its policy rate at 2.75% last week, which it considers to be the mid-point of its neutral range (the level where it is neither ...

Bond-market investors do not expect the Bank of Canada (BoC) to cut its policy rate when it meets this Wednesday. They are pricing in 60% odds that the Bank ...

Last Wednesday US President Trump announced new tariffs on imports from nearly every country on the planet. Even Heard Island, located off the coast of ...

Last week Statistics Canada released our latest GDP data. The results were better than expected, for the second month in a row, mostly because buyers were ...

Last week the US Federal Reserve left its policy rate unchanged, as expected. The theme in the Fed’s accompanying communications was “uncertainty”. Fed ...

The Bank of Canada (BoC) cut its policy rate by another 0.25% last week, as expected. Variable-rate mortgage borrowers will see their rates drop by the ...

Last week, Statistics Canada confirmed that our employment growth slowed in February. Our economy generated only 1,100 new jobs. That result was way below ...

Last week Statistics Canada provided a final look at how our economy was evolving in the pre-Trump era. It confirmed that our GDP increased by 2.6% on an ...

The Bank of Canada (BoC) won’t be feeling much Valentine’s Day love for our most recent inflation data, released by Statistics Canada last week. Our ...

US inflation increased again in January, for the fourth consecutive month. That continued rise in US prices occurred without any help from US President ...

Trump announced he was slapping 25% tariffs on Canadian imports. Chaos has a way of slowing down time. The Sword of Damocles did not fall on Trump’s first ...

The Bank of Canada (BoC) reduced its policy rate by another 0.25% last Wednesday. Variable-rate mortgage rates decreased by the same amount shortly ...