Tickling up CPI Stats Canada announced on Friday that the CPI rate of increase ticked up a bit more in September, hitting 1.9% (over 12 months) up from last month’s yearly rate of 1.7%. The… Read More »CPI Turtles Up Again in September
The Bank of Canada felt worried enough about the Canadian (and North American in general) economy’s fragile recovery that they decided to stop raising interest rates for now, keeping their key overnight rate at 1%,… Read More »Interest Rates Remain the Same
Inflation Drops a Little in August Our amigos over in Stats Canada published the latest CPI numbers yesterday and the rate is slowing a little, but not by much, dropping 0.1% year over year in… Read More »CPI Down a Little
Interest rates did sky rocket in 2010 after the recovery started, but to miniscule levels compared to the 80’s.
On Friday Stats Canada published the monthly Consumer Price Index Numbers and not surprisingly our beloved friend the HST lent a hand and caused a more severe price jump than expected. On July 1, 2010,… Read More »CPI Up: Thanks to HST Bigger Bump
