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Households' showing signs of borrowing fatigue

Although our seasonally-adjusted measure of the household debt-to-income ratio nudged higher in the first quarter of this year, the trend appears to have stabilised. This suggests that there is even less need now for the Bank of Canada to maintain its year-old rate tightening bias.

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