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Cooling housing market will cost us 150000 jobs, mortgage group warns
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 ...
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The Canadian dollar took a mighty tumble today amid the turmoil in currency and stock markets sparked by the Federal Reserve. This actually isn't so much about the Canadian dollar falling as it is about the U.S.
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.
By John Tilak. TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index climbed on Wednesday, led by gold miners, after a day of choppy trading as optimism that the U.S.
Almost the entire city of Montreal will remain under a boil water advisory until at least Thursday morning, after tests at a city filtration plant showed the water was not safe to drink.
Daniel Acker/Bloomberg. Construction of the Gulf Coast Project pipeline in Prague, Oklahoma, on March 11, 2013. The 485-mile crude oil pipeline being constructed by TransCanada Corp.
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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 |