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Slowdown? Nearly half of Canadian home owners eager to buy property
Undeterred by record-high housing prices and bolstered by low borrowing costs, nearly half of Canadian home owners plan to buy a property in the next five years, although intentions vary sharply from city to city, a poll released Wednesday has found.
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Top stories
By Ryan Vlastelica. NEW YORK | Wed May 22, 2013 4:51pm EDT. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks, bonds and currencies took a wild ride on Wednesday, as remarks by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke failed to provide the clear picture investors had ...
The government's efforts to cool the housing market will have a negative impact on the economy and the range of industries that depend on house sales - everything from mortgage financing to furniture and appliance sales - warned the Canadian ...
Wed May 22, 2013 9:50am EDT. By Robert Campbell. NEW YORK May 22 (Reuters) - A casual observer familiar with the Keystone XL saga would think the United States was making it very hard to build any oil sands-related pipelines.
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index closed a bit higher on Wednesday after a day of choppy trading as optimism that the U.S.
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Trends
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| DI.UN | Dundee International Real Estate Inves | -0.19% | 776.96M |
Bank of Canada daily digest
| Money markets | Change | |
| Overnight rate | 1.00% | -0.0019 |
| Corporate paper, 1 month | 1.12% | 0.00 |
| Treasury bill, 1 month | 0.950% | 0.00 |
| Inflation | ||
| Total consumer price index | 0.400% | -0.6000 |
| Interest rates | ||
| 10 year bond | 2.34% | 0.00 |
| Prime business rate | 3.00% | 0.00 |
| Conventional mortgage, 5 yrs | 5.14% | 0.00 |