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Interest Rates Squeeze Local Economies: Major City Insights
With higher borrowing costs leading households to curb spending and prompting businesses to scale back on investment, which sectors of local economies across Canada are being hit the hardest? To what extent are higher interest rates hitting the housing market and related industries in each city? We share our urban economic outlook, including GDP, employment, and population growth.
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The Index of Consumer Confidence Reached 77.3 This Month Following Its Third Consecutive Monthly Increase
Canadian Economics May 23, 2023
Alberta wildfires have damaged its provincial consumer confidence while potentially hurting other provinces’ outlooks. May’s Index of Consumer Confidence had Alberta seeing the largest monthly decline dropping 8.7 points. At the core of this is likely the province’s ongoing wildfire concerns.
Quick take • 3-min read
Walter Bolduc
Through the Gloom and Uncertainty, Manufacturing Sales Ticked Up in March
Canadian Economics May 16, 2023
Although near-term uncertainty is seeping out of every pore of the Canadian economy, manufacturing sales managed to eke out growth in March. Sales gains were largely due to an uptick in transportation equipment sales.
Quick take • 3-min read
Kiefer Van Mulligen
Accelerating Price Growth in April Highlights the Challenges Ahead
Canadian Economics May 16, 2023
Year-over-year price growth inched further away from the Bank of Canada’s target in April. Mortgage interest costs, pushed up by higher interest rates, rose by 28.5 per cent (y/y) and were the key contributor to the year-over-year acceleration of price growth.
Quick take • 2-min read
Kiefer Van Mulligen
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