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maintaining a neutral postion

Posted on Jul 30, 2025


As was widely expected, the Bank of Canada held its trend-setting policy interest rate at 2.75% today. This was the third consecutive policy rate announcement in which the Bank elected to maintain the rate after seven consecutive cuts beginning in June of last year.

The Bank noted that while US tariffs are disrupting trade, both the Canadian and glo...

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state housing shake-up reaches the desert

Posted on Jul 24, 2025


This spring, Sacramento tied the state’s budget to consequential housing reforms, forcing a contentious showdown in the Legislature. With lawmakers facing a multibillion-dollar budget deficit and mounting pressure to deliver results, a series of long-debated reforms were pushed through. While much of the policy discussion has focused on densely-pop...

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tariff inflation has arrived in the US

Posted on Jul 24, 2025


June’s inflation data showed the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rising 2.7% year-over-year, up from 2.4% in May and marking the fastest pace since February. It took several months, but the effects of the import tariffs introduced in April now appear to be materializing in the data.

The recent numbers effectively confirm what many expected: businesses w...

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holding near target

Posted on Jul 15, 2025


This morning's release of Consumer Price Index (CPI) data from Statistics Canada brought a modest uptick in headline inflation in June to 1.9%, from 1.7% in May. Canadians continued to enjoy some price relief last month owing to the removal of the consumer carbon tax in April, which will put downward pressure on the annual rate of inflation for a y...

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a summertime hiring spree

Posted on Jul 14, 2025


The latest Labour Force Survey (LFS) data release from Statistics Canada, for June 2025, showed some encouraging signs: after only adding a total of 60,700 jobs through the first five months of the year, Canada saw employment grow by 83,100 last month alone.

The month-to-month changes in the LFS are notoriously volatile and should generally be taken...

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a headline to ignore; the focus is on core

Posted on Jun 25, 2025


Today’s release of Consumer Price Index (CPI) data from Statistics Canada revealed no change in headline inflation in May versus April, at 1.7%. The removal of the consumer carbon tax in April has pulled the overall rate of inflation lower in each of the past two months—as it will until next April owing to the fact that inflation is calculated on a...

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