OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada will hold its key policy rate at the current level of 4.5% until the end of this year and will start cutting rates in January 2024,…
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“We expect the Bank of Canada to maintain its ‘pause’ through to the end of this year,” Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux said in a report. “With CPI inflation on track to return to its 2% target, we then expect the Bank to start lowering its policy rate early next year.”While money markets still expect that the central bank will keep its benchmark rate unchanged at next week’s policy announcement, they are pricing in additional tightening later in the year..
“Following a stronger-than-expected performance in the second half of last year, we project the Canadian economy to effectively stagnate over the course of this year,” Giroux said. Economic data have been mixed since the central bank signaled the pause, with a blowout jobs report in January showing continued labor market tightness, while inflation and GDP data have been more muted.
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