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Bull Flattening With Growing Recession Calls

CANADA
  • Desjardins now see the Canadian economy with two consecutive of output contractions at the start of 2023 plus a rise in the unemployment rate, albeit a relatively short and shallow recession.
  • The call came later in the session but tallies with the solid bull flattening seen so far, with 2YY -2.3bps and 10YY -8.5bps to push 2s10s to -46bps, back within circa 10bps from recent post-1990 lows.
  • The driving force is a deep housing market correction, with a more prolonged drag from real estate than with the 2008-09 financial crisis, spilling over to domestic demand.
  • They join increasingly negative local analysts, with RBC first calling for a moderate technical recession in 2023 back in early July, TD’s Chief Economist yesterday seeing a coin toss between a soft landing or shallow recession (but little prospect for a deep recession) and Tony Bonen, a labour market adviser to federal and provincial governments, telling MNI how Canada more likely faces a recession than a wage spiral.

Source: Bloomberg

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