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In August 2023, Canada's inflation rate reached four percent, primarily driven by increased gas prices. [35] Food inflation rates reached 8.5 percent. [36] In November 2024, Canada's annual inflation rate rose to 2.0% in October, exceeding analyst expectations and marking the first increase since May 2024. [37]
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OTTAWA (Reuters) -Business sentiment has softened in Canada and most firms now think a recession is likely, a Bank of Canada survey showed on Monday, but inflation expectations remain high ...
In early December 2008, the Bank of Canada, in announcing that it was lowering its central bank interest rate to the lowest level since 1958, also declared that Canada's economy was entering in recession. [9] The Bank of Canada has since announced that it has two consecutive months of GDP decline (Oct -0.1% & Nov -0.7%). The country's ...
The Bank of Canada last week raised its policy interest rate to 1.5% from 1.0%, its second consecutive 50-basis-point hike, and said it was ready to act "more forcefully" if needed to fend off ...
Money markets are betting on another 75-basis point move at the Bank of Canada's Oct. 26 meeting, taking its policy rate to a 14-year high at 4.0%. ... Even as recession worries intensify in ...
Canada's inflation data for August will be released on Tuesday, with analysts forecasting the headline rate will edge down to 7.3%, from 7.6% in July and a four-decade high of 8.1% in June.
In a January 9, 2019 statement on the release of the Monetary Policy Report, Bank of Canada Governor Stephen S. Poloz summarized major events since the October report, such as "negative economic consequences" of the US-led trade war with China. In response to the ongoing trade war "bond yields have fallen, yield curves have flattened even more ...