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Bank of England Now 2nd Central Bank to Taper, After Canada, but Denies Tapering is “Tapering,” also Following Canada

May 7, 2021

Bank of England Now 2nd Central Bank to Taper, After Canada, but Denies Tapering is “Tapering,” also Following Canada The Big Taper starts one central bank at a time. But you gotta keep the markets from swooning with a bit of welcome delusion. The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) today announced that it voted unanimously […]

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Loonie Tumbles After BOC Warns There Is “Increased Uncertainty” About Future Rate Hikes

March 6, 2019

Loonie Tumbles After BOC Warns There Is “Increased Uncertainty” About Future Rate Hikes Another central bank appears to be throwing in the towel on any future rate hikes. Just days after Canada reported an abysmal December GDP print, which declined for the second consecutive month and sparked fears of an imminent technical recession… … the Bank of […]

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Loonie Tumbles After Dovish Bank of Canada Hikes By 25bps, Warns Of NAFTA Uncertainty

January 17, 2018

Loonie Tumbles After Dovish Bank of Canada Hikes By 25bps, Warns Of NAFTA Uncertainty As expected by a broad majority of economists, the Bank of Canada just hiked its overnight rate by 25bps to 1.25%, the first hike by a G-7 central bank in 2018. In raising the rate, the BoC said that “recent data […]

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Bank of Canada Shuts Out Free Market Economists from Key Policy Conference – Peter Diekmeyer

September 8, 2017

Bank of Canada Shuts Out Free Market Economists from Key Policy Conference – Peter Diekmeyer   Next week’s Bank of Canada policy conference appears set to deliver standard talking points. Not a single free market economist has been invited and a BOC spokesperson confirmed that the alternative-financial press is also being shut out. The BOC […]

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Bank of Canada Raises Interest Rates… Again

September 6, 2017

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 […]

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Canada’s “Other” Problem: Record High Household Debt

January 20, 2016

Canada’s “Other” Problem: Record High Household Debt Earlier today, the Bank of Canada surprised some market participants by failing to cut rates. True, the loonie was plunging and another rate cut might very well have accelerated the decline, further eroding the purchasing power of Canadians who are already struggling to keep up with the inexorable rise […]

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Stephen Poloz’s Zen Moment

July 17, 2015

Stephen Poloz’s Zen Moment To cut or not to cut, that is the question. And fortunately for Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz, it was a pretty easy question. A lagging US recovery, China’s downturn, lower oil prices and “bad weather” all contributed to this interest rate cut. “I wouldn’t describe it as a close […]

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