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CPI Preview: Watching For Potential Drop In Median/Trim Trend Rates

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  • Consensus sees headline CPI slowing notably to 3.1% Y/Y in October owing to large energy-focused base effects, back to just above the BoC’s upper end of the 1-3% target range.
  • The BoC’s preferred core CPI measures are seen slowing 0.15pps to 3.6% Y/Y, which could importantly be consistent with a three-month annualized rate breaking below the 3.5-4% range.
  • The Bank has been waiting to break through this level for some time and has grown more impatient, although a significant softening in its growth outlook has provided a partly offsetting factor.
  • Additional hikes are near enough fully priced out and it would likely take a considerable upside surprise to change this, especially ahead of an unusually event two weeks coming ahead of the BoC’s Dec 6 decision. We suspect the reaction will instead be borne out in the magnitude and timing of 2024 rate cuts.
  • See our full preview here including views from 10 sellside analysts: https://roar-assets-auto.rbl.ms/files/58129/CanadaCPIPrevNov2023.pdf

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