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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Weekly Update for the week ending January 27, 2023
Items that may only interest or educate me …. Canadian interest rate moves higher, Fed inline for a ‘soft landing,’ looking forward, big tech downsizing…. This past week, as widely anticipated, the Bank of Canada (BoC) raised the Canadian interest rate by 0.25%, bringing the benchmark rate to 4.5%. The BoC also said they are […]
Weekly Update for the week ending January 20, 2023
Items that may only interest or educate me …. AI coming to a cloud near you, Canadian interest rates, US interest rate data, globalization meets friendshoring … Microsoft (NASD:MSFT) is considering adding more cash to its US$ 1 billion investment in start-up OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT. Microsoft is already previewing ChatGPT under the name […]