Although the rise in GDP in July was stronger than expected, the preliminary estimate of unchanged GDP in August suggests that the momentum was short lived and puts third-quarter growth on track to surprise marginally to the downside of our already downbeat forecast of 1.2% annualised. With little sign that the economy is accelerating as the Bank of Canada had forecast, we expect that the Bank will cut interest rates by 50bp at its October meeting.
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