Items that may only interest or educate me …. Canadian CPI, landings, Canadian deficit, a bunch of US data … The Canadian Consumer Price Index (CPI) dropped to 5.9% on a year over year basis but rose by 0.5% compared to December. Economists had anticipated 6.2% and 0.7%, respectively. The main driver of inflation was […]
Monthly Archives: February 2023
Weekly Update for the week ending February 17, 2023
Items that may only interest or educate me …. Canadian inflation data, US inflation data, … Statistics Canada’s latest Canadian Industrial Product Price Index (IPPI), prices that producers in Canada receive as goods leave the plant, reported an increase of 0.4% in January over December, while on a year over year basis, producer prices went […]
Weekly Update for the week ending February 10, 2023
Items that may only interest or educate me …. Central banks, Bank of Canada minutes, Canadian interest rate predictions, ignore the noise, Canadian jobs, Bing challenging Google? … If it seems like the Bank of Canada (BoC) and the US Federal Reserve (Fed) are common topics in this section of the Weekly Updates, you would […]
Central Banks
While preparing the Weekly Updates, I was increasingly writing about the Bank of Canada and the US Federal Reserve, the central banks for Canada and the USA, respectively. I knew they were central banks and they set the interest rates for their respective nations but that was about it. I soon discovered their actions had […]
Weekly Update for the week ending February 3, 2023
Items that may only interest or educate me …. US interest rates, European interest rates, Huge job growth int the US, Slowing Canadian GDP, Big tech earnings’ misses … As expected, in a unanimous decision by members of the US Federal Reserve System’s (Fed) Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), they increased the US benchmark interest […]