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Consumer Price Index (Sep.) & Retail Sales (Aug.)

September’s unexpectedly sharp drop in headline inflation will not prevent the Bank of Canada from following through with a widely-expected rate rise at its meeting next week. But further falls in core inflation would be a risk to our view that the Bank will raise interest rates again as soon as January.

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