The Bank of Canada today argued that the recent economic slowdown has been largely due to temporary factors, but that growing global trade tensions mean that “the degree of accommodation being provided by the current policy interest rate remains appropriate”. While that seems to imply that the Bank could resume hiking again if global trade tensions eased, we think that policymakers are underestimating the extent to which the housing downturn will weigh on economic growth this year.
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