Category: BOC

BoC to Maintain Inflation Mandate, Will Consider Job Market in Rate Decisions

OTTAWA—Canada’s central bank has been told to keep the annual pace of price gains at its historic target, but also to help build up the labour market. Since 1991, the Bank of Canada has targeted an annual inflation rate of between one and three percent, often landing in a sweet spot at two percent. That…


Bank of Canada to Raise Rates in Third Quarter Next Year, Possibly Sooner: Poll

BENGALURU—The Bank of Canada will raise rates as early as the third quarter of next year, at least three months earlier than previously expected, according to economists polled by Reuters who see a risk that the increase could come even sooner. Just last month economists were almost evenly split on the risk of higher rates;…