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Interest rate expectations still too high

The recent hiking of market interest rate forecasts, which was prompted by the Bank of Canada's more hawkish policy statement a few weeks ago, looks increasingly like an over-reaction. While rate expectations do appear to have been toned down a bit already, we think they are still too high. We expect the Bank of Canada policy interest rate to remain at 1.00% this year and next. 

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