OTTAWA - Canada's inflation story is fast becoming one about disinflation.Statistics Canada reported Friday that the annual rate fell an astonishing s...
When I'm lecturing to students I like to ask them how much a $100 pair of shoes costs. The most common answer is $100 plus tax. Would you believe me if told you it could be as much as $1,376.46? As a 20-year-old, if you convinced yourself not to buy the shoes, and invested it instead -- with an assumed rate of return of 6 per cent -- you'd have $1,376.46 by the time you were 65 years old.
OTTAWA - Canada's economy is displaying fresh symptoms of a slowdown, with data released Friday showing inflation falling to the lowest level in three...
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is being urged to change the way it calculates housing costs in its inflation reports, with critics saying its current meth...
OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate rose slightly to 1.5 per cent last month, but most consumer prices stayed well in check and there were few sig...
OTTAWA - Canada's inflation rate tumbled to the lowest level in almost two years last month, removing the last remaining pressure point on the Bank of...
OTTAWA - Inflation in Canada appears to have entered a period of stability near the Bank of Canada's two per cent sweet spot, providing little impetus...
Wages in Canada are growing more slowly than inflation, meaning the average working Canadian is effectively getting poorer, data from StatsCan shows. ...
OTTAWA - Canada's inflation rate dipped to the lowest level in 18 months in March as price gains in food and gasoline slowed dramatically — although...
OTTAWA - Consumer prices continued to gain steam in Canada last month, as higher prices for key goods like gasoline and food pushed the rate of inflat...
OTTAWA - A one-month pop in gasoline prices propelled Canada's annual inflation rate up two notches to 2.5 per cent in January, reversing a recent tre...
This feature was produced by Jennifer Tse, a student in Ryerson University's School of Journalism, in partnership with The Huffington Post Canada. ...
Depending on one's perspective, 2011 will be viewed as disappointing, bordering on terrible; or, it will be looked back on as a year where we should be thankful. Investors were brought face to face (finally) with the reality that solving the 2007-08 housing and credit crisis merely kicked the can down the road to the next bus stop; that being government debt.
OTTAWA - Canadian workers are failing to keep up with the rising cost of living as real wages continue to fall dramatically, new data from Statistics ...
OTTAWA - The rise in prices Canadians pay for most goods began to moderate last month, dipping below three per cent for the first time since July and ...
OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is expected to continue setting the conditions for economic recovery today by passing again on interest rate hikes.Most ec...
OTTAWA - Canada's inflation rate moved a notch higher as the price of most consumer items increased, especially gasoline and food.Statistics Canada's ...
Inflation over the past year on gas alone has done as much damage to Canadians' bottom line as a seven per cent income tax hike, a CIBC economist says...
OTTAWA - Canada's inflation rate jumped past three per cent last month, but with the economy's foundations in quick-sand, there is little prospect of ...
Now that it no longer aspires to take over the world -- or at least subvert Western countries -- Russia is not the threat to peace that it once was. Even when I lived in Moscow, true communism was never really practiced. Most Muscovites had clandestine deals going on, where they could manipulate or cheat the system.
OTTAWA - The pace of inflation eased in July as increases in the price of gasoline slowed, giving the Bank of Canada room to keep interest rates at th...
Despite the hysteria that the downgrade of US debt would lead to US funding costs rising and Treasuries crashing, instead we've had stocks crashing an...
With each passing week, there seems to be more news of distress in government debt markets as governments grapple with record deficits. Not surprisingly, the bond market is getting nervous.
THE CANADIAN PRESS -- OTTAWA - The annual inflation rate was 3.1 per cent in June, sliding from 3.7 per cent in May. Statistics Canada said the dro...
THE CANADIAN PRESS -- TORONTO - Canadians are taking several steps to make their dollars stretch further, according to the latest RBC consumer outlook...
