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Weekly Market Outlook

It’s central banks’ easing time! On the back of severe disinflationary pressures due to oil prices,

The Bank of Canada is the latest Central Bank to deliver a shock;

The Bank of Canada announced a surprise 25bp cut to its key interest rate Wednesday

We expect US building permits and housing starts to surprise on the upside.

In the week ahead, investors will be focusing on Thursday’s outcome of the ECB’s policy meeting and

In last week’s we asked the question: “Is the Canadian output gap positive?”

Even though oil price fall feels like 2008, it is not, thus consequences will be different.

The Bank of Canada notes in its latest statement that “as the economy reaches its full capacity in the second half of 2016,

Further gradual rise favoured in USD/CAD However, the change in BoC’s communication suggests that

In the week ahead, China and the U.K. and to release preliminary data on third quarter economic growth,

Disinflation is topic de jour for investors, but the transmission mechanism tocurrencies is poorly understood.

The Bank of Canada outlined a position Monday that says its economystimulating policy interest rate