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Bank of Canada Raises Interest Rates… Again
Bank of Canada Raises Interest Rates… Again For the second time in less than two months, the Bank of Canada has raised interest rates. On Wednesday, the central bank raised its overnight lending rate by a quarter per cent to 1 per cent. The move surprised many who weren’t expecting a rate increase until later […]
Toronto Home Price Bubble Descends into Bear Market
Toronto Home Price Bubble Descends into Bear Market With surprise rate hike, Bank of Canada turns against housing market. Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area, the largest housing market in Canada, plunged 34.8% in August compared to a year ago, to 6,357 homes, with sales of detached homes and semi-detached homes getting eviscerated: Sales […]
Loonie Soars After Bank Of Canada Unexpectedly Hikes Rates By 25 bps
Loonie Soars After Bank Of Canada Unexpectedly Hikes Rates By 25 bps With only 6 of 33 forecasters predicting a rate hike in today’s Bank of Canada announcement, it was inevitable: the Bank of Canada surprised a good 75% of the market, and triggered massive stop loss orders in the looni, when moments ago it […]
The Canadian Cointoss: Bank Of Canada Monetary Policy Decision Preview
The Canadian Cointoss: Bank Of Canada Monetary Policy Decision Preview From RanSquawk The majority expects the BoC to leave its overnight rate unchanged at 0.75%. Only 6 of 33 surveyed expect the BoC to hike this time out, while the OIS curve prices in a 45% chance of a hike. A strong Q2 GDP release […]
IMF Rings The Alarm On Canada’s Economy
IMF Rings The Alarm On Canada’s Economy Shortly after yesterday’s rate hike by the Bank of Canada, its first since 2010, we warned that as rates in Canada begin to rise, the local economy which has seen a striking decline in hourly earnings in the past year, which remains greatly reliant on a vibrant construction […]
The Inconvenient Truth of Consumer Debt
The Inconvenient Truth of Consumer Debt It’s acceptable to build infinitely high levels of household debt — as long as rates never rise. Ready for a rainy day?Photographer: Anoek De Groot/AFP/Getty Images Oh, but for the days the hawks had a hero in Sydney. Against the backdrop of a de facto currency war, the Reserve […]
The Toronto Housing Market Is About To Collapse By This Measure
The Toronto Housing Market Is About To Collapse By This Measure With the collapse of Home Capital Group focusing the world’s attention on the Canadian real estate market, nowhere is the subprime debt time bomb more likely to go off than Toronto, which as we recently noted “has gone nuts.” Even Bank of Canada Governor […]
The Bank of Canada Should “Cease and Desist”
The Bank of Canada Should “Cease and Desist” “Beneath the symbol We’ll all assemble Oh how we’ll fly Oh how we’ll tremble” — Captain Beefheart, “Ice Cream for Crow” If interest rates are the symbol beneath of which we all assemble, then there are some bad times ahead. But Canada’s “leading economists,” say interest rates […]
Joyce Nelson, Mark Anielski on “It’s Our Money”
Joyce Nelson, Mark Anielski on “It’s Our Money” A handful of Canadians are waging a noble fight to return their central bank, the Bank of Canada, to its chartered role as a low and no-interest financier of government projects and the public interest. That case is at the center of a new book called Beyond Banksters: Resisting the New Feudalism. […]
Conference Board sees modest economic growth in 2017
Conference Board sees modest economic growth in 2017 Alberta expected to lead all provinces in economic growth this year Retail sales activity is expected to cool this year and next, the Conference Board of Canada says. (Chris Wattie/Reuters) The national economy should see a slight pick-up this year, the Conference Board of Canada said in […]
Canadian Housing Bubble, Debt Stir Financial Crisis Fears
Canadian Housing Bubble, Debt Stir Financial Crisis Fears Their bone-chilling chart. Everyone is fretting about the Canadian house price bubble and the mountain of debt it generates – from the IMF on down to the regular Canadian. Now even the Bank for International Settlement (BIS) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) warn about […]
House affordability improving in some parts of Canada, National Bank says
House affordability improving in some parts of Canada, National Bank says Mortgage rates probably won’t be dramatically changed by the Bank of Canada’s benchmark overnight rate, economists say. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press) Amid the continuing escalation in housing prices in the Vancouver and Toronto areas, there are some places in Canada where home affordability is improving, […]
Bank of Canada keeps benchmark interest rate at 0.5%
Bank of Canada keeps benchmark interest rate at 0.5% Central bank’s rate has impact on rates offered by commercial banks for loans and savings accounts The Bank of Canada, lead by governor Stephen Poloz, kept its benchmark lending rate at 0.5 per cent on Wednesday. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press) Canada’s central bank stood pat today, electing […]
Remember the people involved
Remember the people involved When I was in University, I vividly remember one of my economics professors telling students to always remember the people involved when analyzing a policy change. I was reminded of this sage advice upon reading Matthew McCaffery’s Mises Daily article titled, “Who will pay for it?” is the wrong question to ask […]
Meridian credit union offers 1-year mortgage at 1.69%
Meridian credit union offers 1-year mortgage at 1.69% Spring mortgage wars start early, as member-owned lender makes new low offer to homebuyers Meridian credit union just offered a one-year mortgage at 1.69 per cent. (Daniel Munoz/Reuters) Alternative lender Meridian has launched the first shot in the spring mortgage wars with a one-year fixed mortgage rate […]
