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To facilitate economic recovery, The Bank of Canada maintained its target for the overnight rate at the effective lower bound of 0.25%. The quantitative easing (QE) program will also continue to be in place, with large-scale asset purchases of at least $5 billion per week of Government of Canada bonds….
To facilitate economic recovery, The Bank of Canada will keep the Canadian Overnight Rate at an effective lower bound of 0.25%. The Bank has also reiterated that the monetary policy measures, launched earlier this year, such as the Quantitative easing (QE) program, will continue to remain in place, to support…
The Bank of Canada interest rate is remaining at 0.25% for June 2020. On June 3, 2020, the Bank of Canada (BOC) announced they are maintaining the overnight rate of 0.25%, which came into effect on March 27, 2020. This was not a surprise as the BOC had called the…
The Bank of Canada (BOC) interest rate held for the 10th time in a row on January 22, 2020. The rate stayed at 1.75%, the same it has been since October of 2018. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 2% and the deposit rate is 1.5%. Here’s what the BOC had…
The BOC interest rate is staying at 1.75% for another month thanks to several “sources of resilience” in the Canadian economy — including housing activity. “Housing investment was also a source of strength, supported by population growth and low mortgage rates,” the Bank of Canada (BOC) stated in its December…
The Bank of Canada (BOC) interest rate is remaining at 1.75% for another month. On October 30, 2019, the BOC announced that the overnight interest rate will go unchanged. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 2% and the deposit rate is 1.5%. The interest rate has stayed the same for a…
The Bank of Canada is maintaining the Canadian interest rate for the eleventh month in a row. On September 4, 2019, the Bank of Canada (BOC) announced that the overnight interest rate will stay at 1.75% for another month. The last time the rate increased was in October of 2018…
The July 2019 Bank of Canada interest rate announcement included a positive mention of the Canadian real estate market: The Bank of Canada (BOC) sees the Canadian real estate market stabilizing at a national level. On July 10, 2019, the Bank of Canada announced it is holding the overnight interest…
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In the final quarter of 2018, Canadian housing affordability worsened for a 14th consecutive quarter, found economic research from the National Bank Housing Affordability Monitor. Using data from the Teranet-National Bank House Price Index, National Bank Deputy Chief Economist Matthieu Arseneau and Economist Kyle Dahms released a quarterly report on…
Last year in 2018 we saw many changes to the Canadian housing market. Now that 2019 is here, what will this year bring? We’re breaking down real estate predictions for the year ahead. Here’s what’s on our radar: 1. Interest Rate Increases In 2018, we saw Canadian interest rates rise…