The Bank of Canada delivered a more hawkish message alongside its policy rate announcement today, noting that “the upside risks to inflation have increased” and it is “prepared to adjust monetary policy as needed”. We would not take this as a signal of an imminent rate increase, but we will probably need to pull forward our forecast for the first hike, currently pencilled in for the second quarter of 2027.
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