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Last week was light on the data front, in part because the US Federal Government shutdown continued for its third consecutive week.
The lack of new economic data helped amplify the bond market’s reaction to a speech made by US Federal Reserve Chairman Powell on Tuesday.
He had previously emphasized the conflicting challenges of weak US employment and above-targe...
I hope that everyone enjoyed a relaxing Thanksgiving weekend. I took the weekend off and will be back next week, as usual.
In the meantime, I am thankful for your readership, and for the borrowers who place their trust in me to assist them with their mortgage financing.
The Bottom Line: Bond yields were range bound last week, and fixed mortgage rates held steady...
Last week was relatively quiet for mortgage-related news.
On the Canadian front, the most noteworthy update came from a speech by Bank of Canada (BoC) Deputy Governor Rhys Mendes. He cautioned that bond-market investors “place more emphasis on the preferred core [inflation] measures than we do”.
That difference is significant because our core measures are hoveri...
Last week Statistics Canada confirmed that our economy did a little better than expected in July.
Our GDP growth increased by 0.2% month-over-month in July, led by a 0.6% month-over-month bounce in tariff-impacted goods industries. (Reminder: Our GDP prints lag because it takes time to compile the data.)
That was welcome news. Our GDP decreased by 0.1% month-ove...
The Bank of Canada (BoC) cut its policy rate by another 0.25% last week.
In its accompanying statement, the Bank assessed that tariff and trade uncertainty was “weighing heavily on economic activity” and noted that the upward pressure on its prefe...
