Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney warned on Thursday the bank could raise interest rates if the growth in household debt doesn’t slow. It was a...

OTTAWA - Canadian households continue to get into deeper debt, but the most recent data also offers a bit of a respite — credit accumulation is slow...

TORONTO -- Canadians appear less concerned about retirement planning than in years past as they continue to focus on debt reduction as their main fina...

OTTAWA - Canadians are more in hock today than ever before, Statistics Canada said Thursday in releasing fresh data on household debt.The new report s...

OTTAWA — Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is not worried about a housing collapse, saying he is happy he has helped cool the market with the latest rou...

TORONTO - One-third of Canadian respondents to a new survey admit their financial plans include counting on a future injection of good luck, either by...

TORONTO - The news out of Canada's real estate market isn't good, but the country will avoid a U.S.-style real estate meltdown, CIBC said Tuesday. ...

Recent data revisions from Statistics Canada showed that Canadians are even more in debt than previously estimated. The average household debt in Cana...

Canadians, you’re more indebted than you think. Statistics Canada is busy re-evaluating economic data going back two decades as part of an effort...

TORONTO - A new poll suggests that most Canadians are quite comfortable with using debt as a financial strategy — at a time when debt loads have ris...

Home ownership is often connected to the notion of living the "American dream." But it is as much a part of Canadian identity as it is in the U.S. ...

TORONTO - There is more than a 20 per cent risk of Canada falling into a second recession — and though much of that risk comes from outside our bord...

TORONTO - Canadians have pushed their debt levels to an eight-year high in a climate of ultra-low interest rates, according to a new report that sugge...

Canada’s fiscal policymakers are working to cool off the country’s overheated real estate market, tightening lending restrictions and warning buye...

TORONTO - Consumer debt growth was about 30 per cent lower in the second quarter than a year earlier — the biggest slowdown since before the recessi...

TORONTO - Canadians who are worried about the amount of interest they pay for borrowing money could be relieved to hear the central bank decided Tuesd...

OTTAWA - Canadian households have hit a dubious new record for debt.Fresh Statistics Canada data shows the ratio of debt to personal disposable income...

TORONTO - A new bank study suggests the average Canadian household is more than $100,000 in debt and that Canadians have ramped up borrowing in the pa...

OTTAWA - Credit rating agency DBRS said Thursday that average Canadian households can withstand a catastrophic drop in home prices, but warned that a ...

Consumer confidence reversed course in April as Canadians continued to worry about jobs and their personal finances, according to the latest survey by...

TORONTO - Canadians are continuing to heap on non-mortgage debt, despite warnings about the perils of cheap borrowing from top officials, according to...

More Canadians acknowledge they may be reaching the upper limits on borrowing, but they have yet to act on it, two new reports suggest.A survey releas...

TORONTO - A Bank of Montreal study finds more than 40 per cent of Canadians surveyed are unsure about their ability to afford their homes in the case ...

With policymakers warning about rising household debt levels, a new survey shows that Canadians are both worried about what they owe, and in denial ab...

TORONTO -- Royal Bank is raising its posted fixed and variable mortgage rates, of between 10 and 50 basis points in a sign the era of ultra low borrow...