Details from the Bank of Canada’s business outlook survey for Q4 2017 8 January 2018
- Future slaes indicator moderates from recent high levels
- Indicators of capacity pressures and labour shortages picked up reflecting strong demand and tightening labour market
- Firms expect stable sales growth or a retunr to a more sustainable pace
- Firms plan to expand opperations to accommodate sustained demand
- Expect growth of input prices to rise, owing to commod prices
- Inflation expectations are modest, unchanged form Q3
- Economic slack is now largely limited to energy producing regions
- Aside from higher prime rates credit conditions are largely unchanged
USDCAD has gone on a biut of a wobble, jumping to 1.2450, then falling back to 1.2415. If anything, it’s a mildly hawkish report, particularly looking at the inflation comments. Whether it’s enough to get them hiking Jan 17th is unknown but there’s been no harm done either in this report.
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