The Bank of Canada continues to insist that its policy rate will eventually need to rise from the current 1.0%, even as the global economic slowdown intensifies and the domestic housing boom shows signs of going into reverse. We suspect it won't be much longer before the Bank is persuaded to drop its tightening bias and the next move in interest rates is still more likely to be down rather than up.
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