Paul Volcker wanted to tame inflation and the Bank of Canada followed suit. The prime rate, which had fallen to 12.25% in July 1980 jumped to 22.75% by August 1981. A five-year fixed rate mortgage ...

Models of bond prices combine historical data on inflation, interest rates and the exchange rate with assumptions ... These investments contributed substantially to the gross capital formation in ...

1 Tariffs affect spending, trade flows, government revenue, exchange rates ... Canada’s retaliatory tariffs are assumed to be gradually passed on to consumer prices over three years, CPI inflation is ...

Tedeschi's chart shows that when taken literally, Trump's campaign proposals could increase the average effective tariff rate ... and Canada, it is very easy to get to 3% plus core PCE inflation ...

As a result, the cost of food purchased from restaurants declined 1.6 per cent year-over-year in December, the first such decline in the index’s history. “Roughly 10 per cent of the inflation ...

The interest rate you earn on a GIC may not be high enough to keep up with inflation ... With a history going back to 1817, this Big Six bank is the oldest in Canada. In addition to traditional ...

Canada’s inflation rate dropped to 1.8 per cent in December from 1.9 per cent a month earlier, as the impact from a temporary GST/HST break introduced by the federal government tamped down price ...

The Bank of Canada lowered its overnight rate by 25 ... They have the inflation impact building. It builds slowly over the first year. They have, based on the historical record, that the pass ...

Tariffs of 25% on Canada ... inflation holds no surprises, TIPS returns should generally exceed the CPI. The chart below indicates that, indeed, real yields are high relative to historical norms.

The last time we played around with tariffs was back in 2018 when we started a trade war with China. To say the least that ...

Chairman Martin Schlegel has not ruled out taking rates back into negative territory. A line chart comparing inflation metrics over the past five years. The Bank of Canada on Wednesday trimmed its ...