Economics News
Bank of Canada: Rate Hike July 2017
For the first time in 7 years, the Bank of Canada has chosen to raise the overnight rate target from 0.5% to 0.75%....
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Thaler’s Nobel Prize Winning Work in Behavioural Economics
It’s one of two major assumptions in economics, and taught within the first week in most 101 classes: rationality. How do we define rationality?...
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Bank of Canada Interest Rate Decision this Wednesday
On Wednesday, 18 January 2017, the Bank of Canada will be announcing their overnight target rate decision and release the quarterly MPR (Monetary Policy...
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Bank of Canada Interest Rate Release
On April 12, 2017, the Bank of Canada announced its policy to maintain the overnight interest rate target at a steady 0.5 percent. There...
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The Rise of Cryptoassets & Derivatives
“I bought it when it was really cheap, around $300, and after it went up a ton, I decided to buy some more.. But...
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Unemployment Rates Fall in Canada and U.S
July’s labour market figures in Canada show a healthy situation with unemployment rate falling to 6.3%, a decrease of 0.2%, according to Statistics Canada....