Deputy Governor Carolyn Wilkin’s speech earlier this week suggested that the Bank of Canada is already beginning to doubt its earlier upbeat assessment of the economic outlook, which was behind its decision to hike interest rates twice this year. This supports our view that the Bank will keep interest rates unchanged at 1.00% for longer than markets expect. We still wouldn’t rule out interest rate cuts in the second half of 2018.
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