Interest Rates

Bank of Canada expected to end year with another interest-rate hold

Potential homebuyers hold off on purchases, the Home of the Week and more top real estate stories

Banks brace for tough economic times in 2024

Banks seeing decline in borrowers adding unpaid interest to their mortgage balances

Federal Reserve’s Jerome Powell notes inflation is easing, but says further progress is needed

Canada’s unemployment rate rises to 5.8% in November as job market continues to cave

Pfizer drops twice daily obesity pill as patients struggle with side effects

This week’s lowest fixed and variable mortgage rates in Canada

Plunging consumer confidence suggests spending slowdown could get much worse

Too much wealth tied up in real estate can hurt your retirement, report suggests

U.S. economic growth for last quarter revised up to 5.2% annual rate

U.S. Federal Reserve policy-makers appear to be likely done raising interest rates

Is Canada in a recession? Who makes that determination?

European Central Bank’s fight to tame inflation progressing but not yet done, Lagarde says

If Alberta is an economic powerhouse, why is Calgary housing cheaper than Windsor, Ont.?

Turned down for a loan, business owners look to family and even crowdsourcing to get money to grow

A Canadian Mortgage Charter, the Home of the Week and more of this week’s top real estate stories

Prices rising in a weak economy: Your home is the problem, fuelling stagflation

This week’s lowest fixed and variable mortgage rates in Canada

Bank of Canada’s Macklem says interest rates may be high enough to tame inflation

Bank of Canada says rates may now be at peak, excess demand now gone

Canada’s inflation rate slowed to 3.1% in October, but rents surge

Searching for bargains with Manulife’s dividend-focused Prakash Chaudhari

Fed shifts into cautious policy mode as risks become more two-sided

Canada inflation rate slowed to 3.1% in October. Here’s what happens next

Brookfield on path to boost earnings with fast-growing insurance arm

Builders say HST removal on rentals isn’t enough and more of this week’s top real estate stories

This week’s lowest fixed and variable mortgage rates in Canada

Here’s how home owners can age in their own place, even if they are struggling to afford it

Walmart shares fall as retailer sounds note of caution on consumers ahead of holidays

Bank of England rate-setter Megan Greene says investors have missed ‘higher for longer’ message

Canadian home sales slow in October as many buyers have already ‘gone into hibernation’: CREA

U.S. Federal Reserve seen pivoting to rate cuts in May as inflation cools

U.S. consumer inflation eased in October as cheaper gas slowed overall price increases

China’s central bank set to boost liquidity injection Wednesday but keep rate unchanged

Interest rates aren’t going back to their pre-COVID lows. Good