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Market Participants See First Cut In April, But Beware Sample Period

CANADA
  • The BoC’s market participant survey for Q3 shows the median analyst (of 28 responses) look for the first cut from the Bank in April, with 25bps to 4.75% on its way to 4% by end-2024. Full release here.
  • It’s a shift out from the Q2 survey which had a first cut to 4.75% in March and 3.5% by end-2024.
  • Note though that the publication of these surveys continues to be unfortunately lagged, reducing their relevance with today’s Q3 survey collected Sept 20-28 and the Q2 survey June 8-19.
  • Since the end of the Q3 sample period, we have seen two softer than expected monthly GDP prints, one strong and then one weak labour report and one softer than expected CPI report. Coincidentally, the combination currently leaves the market back at a similar path to those Q3 analyst estimates: essentially pricing in no more hikes and 82bp of cuts in 2024 on a 3-mth CORRA Z3/Z4 basis.

Source: Bloomberg

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