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Canada: Strong Domestic Data Outweighed By US

STIR FUTURES
  • BAX implied yields have softened 2-4bps across the curve today despite very strong CPI, reflecting lower yields in the US both before and after the FOMC minutes.
  • The rate path is still far steeper this year than it did after the last BoC/FOMC meetings, with an extra 28bps priced.
  • Whilst heavily expected by both the market and analysts, BoC's Lane almost indicated a hike is coming on Mar 2. In Q&A at today's speech, when talking about the timeline for balance sheet runoff he noted: “We’re going to certainly consider starting that process fairly... We’ll be doing that as soon as we’re starting to raise rates,”... “Quite likely we’ll be saying something about that in a couple weeks time when we’re actually at the stage of changing our, uhh... When we’re actually at our next decision point.”


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