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Bank surveys show need for looser policy

The Bank of Canada’s business and consumer surveys point to weak GDP growth, show that firms’ wage expectations are now lower than their pre-pandemic peak, and suggest that consumers are increasingly concerned about the health of the labour market. All that raises the prospect that the Bank left it a little late to begin cutting interest rates and increases the chance of the Bank cutting again next week.

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