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Last week was a slow one for economic news but we did receive our latest inflation data, for March. Statistics Canada confirmed that overall inflation, as measured by our Consumer Price Index (CPI), rose by 1.3% last month, which was a little less than our 1.4% rate in February but slightly above the 1.2% rate that the consensus had been expecting. The most noteworthy detail in our latest CPI data showed that gasoline prices fell by 13.6% versus where they were last year. We saw price rises in six of the eight major categories that Stats Can tracks, and core inflation, which strips out more volatile CPI inputs like food and energy, rose by 2.1% in March (up from 1.9% in February). When the Bank of Canada (BoC) […]