by Ryan Littlestone | January 17th, 2018, 15:00:05 | Bank of Canada, Central Banks, Sticky1
Highlights from the Bank of Canada monetary policy announcement 17 January 2018 USDCAD went on a weild ride to 1.2521 then down to 1.2378. Data has been strong and the economy is operating roughly at capacity Outlook expected to warrant higher rates over time but some...
by Ryan Littlestone | January 16th, 2018, 14:14:39 | Bank of Canada, Central Banks, News, Sticky1, Technical Analysis
A trading preview ahead of the Bank of Canada’s monetary policy meeting Wednesday 17th January 2018 This one is going to be a whopper. The CAD is still the most volatile major currency on the block at the moment. We struggled to see a 50 pip move in the dollar...
by Ryan Littlestone | January 8th, 2018, 16:37:20 | Bank of Canada, Central Banks
All the big banks now see a high chance of a hike at the January BOC meeting on the 17th “The Bank of Canada’s latest quarterly Business outlook survey is healthy enough to convince us that the bank is likely to hike rates as early as next week’s...
by Ryan Littlestone | January 8th, 2018, 15:30:04 | Bank of Canada, Central Banks
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...
by Ryan Littlestone | January 5th, 2018, 15:24:53 | Bank of Canada, Central Banks
Here’s come the BOC hike expectation changes Following the good Canadian jobs report, hike expectations for the Jan 17h BOC meeting have now jumped to 70%. With that comes all the revised calls for expectations. Scotia Bank have announced that they now see a...
by Ryan Littlestone | December 6th, 2017, 15:00:04 | Bank of Canada, Central Banks
Details of the Bank Of Canada monetary policy decision 6 December 2017 Will be guided by incoming data in assessing economies sensitivity to rates, economic capacity, wage growth and inflation Canadain data in line with October outlook Employment growth has been very...