The Bank of Canada has some difficult realities to weigh ahead of its Jan. 26 interest rate decision. ... More

Economists at J.P. Morgan expect the Bank of Canada will raise its benchmark interest rate at its Jan. 26 meeting, ahead of the central bank’s own timeline for liftoff. ... More

Bank of Canada needs to take “rapid action” with multiple interest rate increases to bring inflation under control. ... More

Robust jobs market recovery in December might sufficiently motivate the Bank of Canada to implement rate hikes sooner. ... More

By all accounts the Bank of Canada is set to make money more expensive in 2022 ... More

With inflation surging, the Bank of Canada is likely to change its interest rate guidance in the new year so that it has the option to raise borrowing costs earlier than planned ... More

The Bank of Canada is keeping its key interest rate target on hold at its rock-bottom level of 0.25 per cent. ... More

Some economists think the central bank should move rate hikes up to early 2022 ... More

HELOC debt has also increased at a much faster rate compared to GDP, official figures indicate ... More

The Bank of Canada is warning a rush of investors into the country’s housing market this year has fueled prices and heightened the risk of a correction. ... More

Financial markets may be pricing in the first interest rate hikes as early as March, but they shouldn’t be too confident about that timing. ... More

Governor says team remains focused on inflation target as risks around price pressures increase ... More

A prominent Bay Street economist said homebuyers should start preparing sooner rather than later. ... More

The Bank of Canada will likely raise its benchmark interest rate four times by 2024. ... More

The Bank of Canada today held its target for the overnight rate at the effective lower bound of ¼ percent. ... More

Expectations for the first interest rate hike have moved up to as early as April as inflation concerns grow and supply disruptions persist. ... More

The Bank of Canada kept its key interest rate target on hold Wednesday as it warned the fourth wave of the pandemic and supply bottlenecks could weigh on the economic recovery. ... More

The Bank of Canada has announced in its July statement that it will hold its target for the overnight rate at the effective lower bound of 0.25%, staying the course on its ... More

A growing number of Canadians, particularly renters, are planning to buy a home in the next 12 months amid the national economy’s steady recovery, according to a new ... More

With fiscal spending booming and households flush with cash, investors are betting that the Bank of Canada’s next tightening cycle, expected to begin in 2022, will result in ... More

The Bank of Canada is cautiously optimistic about the country's economic recovery as vaccines continue to roll out and spending rebounds. ... More

Bank of Canada will hold current level of policy rate until inflation objective is sustainably achieved, continues quantitative easing ... More

The Bank of Canada says its concerns are mounting that households are piling on too much debt and posing what the central bank says is a key vulnerability to the economy. ... More

The Bank of Canada may have to adjust its view of its long-term neutral policy rate once a torrent of pent-up household savings is unleashed once pandemic restrictions are eased ... More

Canadians are so alarmed by the red-hot housing market that many say they’d like to see the central bank raise the cost of borrowing to dampen demand for real estate and ... More

Bank of Canada announced that it will hold its target for the overnight rate at the effective lower bound of 0.25%, and that it will be adjusting its weekly net purchases of ... More

The Bank of Canada announced that it will pare back asset purchases by one-quarter and indicated that it’s moving up its expected timeline for interest-rate hikes, citing a ... More

The central bank’s latest quarterly survey found that executives have become more optimistic when it comes to their sales and investment projections in the coming year, ... More

The Bank of Canada is seeing “worrying” signs that some Canadians are taking on too much debt to buy into the nation’s hot housing market. ... More

BMO Economics isn’t ruling out the possibility of a policy response to cool rapidly overheating Canadian real estate markets. ... More