The Bank of Canada is holding steady on interest rates as it gauges the extent of the damage that deepening trade conflicts have had on the domestic and global economies. The rate decision Wednesday, which was widely expected, kept the central bank’s overnight rate at 1.75 per cent and followed a solid second-quarter rebound for […]
The U.S. Federal Reserve is widely expected to cut its interest rate Wednesday for the first time in over a decade — a big step, though one unlikely to pull Canada’s central bank out of its holding pattern any time soon. The Bank of Canada sent signals earlier this month that the Canadian economy is […]
The European Central Bank joined the U.S. Federal Reserve in saying that more stimulus could be coming soon to support an economy weakening in the face of global tensions over trade. The ECB said Thursday after a policy meeting that it could cut interest rates as its next move and was studying ways to restart […]
Earlier this week, the Bank of Canada announced it’s maintaining the target for the overnight rate at 1.75 per cent. “As expected, the Bank of Canada kept the target rate unchanged at 1.75 per cent,” said Randall Malcolm, senior managing director at Sun Life Investment Management, in a statement. “The [Bank of Canada’s] statement surprised […]
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