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Five Factors That Will Drive Canadian Mortgage Rates in 2015 (Monday Morning Interest Rate Update (January 5, 2015)

What Bank of Canada Governor Poloz Really Said about Housing Bubble Risks - Monday Morning Interest Rate Update (December 15, 2014)

Why the Gap Between Fixed and Variable Mortgage Rates May Widen - Monday Morning Interest Rate Update (December 8, 2014)

Why Are Bond Yields Falling in the Face of Improving Economic Data? Monday Morning Interest Rate Update (December 1, 2014)

The central bankers who administer monetary policy for the world’s largest economies have been whipping up potent cocktails that combine ultra-low interest rates with quantitative easing (QE) programs and other creative forms of monetary policy stimulus since the start of the Great Recession. Most market watchers have predicted that the unprecedented scope and scale of this monetary largesse would eventually trigger significantly higher inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI). But so far it hasn’t happened. In fact, more often than not, these ultra-loose monetary policies have corresponded with falling CPI inflation. Today’s question is: Why? I am an independent full-time mortgage broker and industry insider who helps Canadians from coast to coast. If you are purchasing, refinancing or renewing your mortgage, contact me or apply […]

What Another Good Jobs Report Means For Canadian Mortgage Rates - Monday Morning Interest Rate Update (November 10, 2014)

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