The Bank of Canada held its key policy rate at 0.25 percent on Jan. 26, but is ready to start raising rates. The central bank judges that “economic slack is now essentially absorbed” and its governing council decided to “end its extraordinary commitment to hold its policy rate at the effective lower bound. “The…
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The difference in reactions to Omicron has been stark between Canada’s provincial governments and governments in other countries. The financial markets have also tended to be far more sanguine.
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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 Keeps Interest Rates Unchanged, Warns of Omicron Uncertainty
December 8, 2021
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OTTAWA—The Bank of Canada on Wednesday held its key overnight interest rate unchanged, as expected, and said inflation was broadening even as it warned that the Omicron coronavirus variant has created “renewed uncertainty.” The central bank, in a regular rate decision, left its key overnight interest rate at 0.25 percent and maintained guidance that economic…
Canadian Economy Ripe for Persistent High Inflation
Commentary Across the developed world, central bank officials continue to reassure the public that the global spike in inflation over the past nine months is transitory and that inflation should return to pre-pandemic rates sometime in 2022. At the same time, the U.S. Federal Reserve has begun to taper its purchases of government debt (which…
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