As expected the Bank of Canada’s rate announcements continue to ring the same bell for the last 9 months: no change, no change and no change…
Well, Yesterday they met yet again, and guess what happened? Nothing, no change again!
The Bank left Canada’s key lending rate at a record low 0.25%. That’s been the rate since April of last year.
In Yesterday’s report it reads:
- “Conditional on the outlook for inflation, the target overnight rate can be expected to remain at its current level until the end of the second quarter of 2010.”
- “The global economic recovery is under way.”
- The economy should return “to full capacity” with inflation returning “to the 2% target in the third quarter of 2011.”
- “The Bank projects that the economy will grow by 2.9% in 2010 and 3.5% in 2011.” (an increase versus its prior forecast)
The next BOC meeting is March 2. I find it very interesting that the BOC has kept the rates at record low rates for this long.
I feel change is in the air...what do you think?????
David
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