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Economists are boosting their forecasts for Canadian inflation and unemployment as the war in Iran drives up oil prices and heightens global instability. Article content Analysts in a Bloomberg survey see the consumer price index rising at a 2.4 per cent annual pace this year, up from 2.2 per cent in last month’s survey. Unemployment is expected to average 6....
Analysts expect Prime Minister Mark Carney to push the federal government’s budget deeper into the red as Canada ramps up spending to bolster its military and infrastructure.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to delay Canada’s budget until later this year increases economic uncertainty but isn’t likely to spark worries among investors, say a majority of economists in a Bloomberg survey. Carney announced after winning an April election that he would push back an update of the country’s fiscal picture, typically delivered in the first half of the...
Canada’s next prime minister is set to inherit a half-year of flat economic growth, economists predict, an immediate test of their governance as President Donald Trump’s trade war grinds business investment and exports lower. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg see the economy contracting 0.2% in the second quarter and no growth in the third quarter. That would put it on the...
Economists see the Bank of Canada cutting interest rates for a third consecutive meeting next week, continuing what’s anticipated to be a steady downward trend in borrowing costs over the next year as inflation eases.