Housing revival likely to keep Bank on side-lines

The labour market is starting to show cracks and GDP growth is on track to slow below the Bank of Canada’s forecast in the fourth quarter. This will increase the pressure on policymakers and means that an insurance cut can’t be completely ruled out. But with house price inflation set to surge, we now think that the most likely outcome is that the Bank will keep policy unchanged in the coming quarters.

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