The preliminary estimate suggests that the healthy 0.3% m/m rise in GDP in April was followed by a shock 0.2% contraction in May but, as this appears to have been partly due to temporary factors, it probably won’t stop the Bank of Canada from enacting a larger 75 bp interest rate hike next month.
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