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Free AccessMNI PRE-BOC:Set To Leave Rates Unchanged As Biz Invest Weakens
By Yali N'Diaye
OTTAWA (MNI) - Friday's GDP release was the last important piece of data
before the Bank of Canada's interest rate announcement next week, and despite a
decent headline number, the underlying details of the report likely sealed the
case for holding rates steady, but only temporarily.
Since the October 24 meeting, the ongoing slide in oil prices has also been
a key element that should put a hold on further tightening on December 5. The
BOC might want to give itself more time to assess the impact of lower oil prices
on Canada's growth and inflation outlook. So far, core inflation has been
holding around 2%.
Whether the policy statement indicates that the decline in oil prices is
still due to transitory factors will be important as it will show whether the
central bank is considering lowering its growth outlook on that basis.
The BOC might also want to take additional time to see how trade tensions
between the U.S. and China evolve.
The BOC is set to resume its tightening next year from the current rate of
1.75% and a neutral rate between 2.5% and 3.5%. The central bank had dropped its
"gradual" approach in October and is poised to stick to its data dependent
approach.
Canada's annualized GDP growth slowed to 2.0% in the third quarter from
2.9% in the second quarter, in line with analysts' expectations in a MNI survey,
and topping the BOC's 1.8% projection. However, details showed that the BOC's
growth rotation scenario was challenged at several levels and should give the
BOC cover to hold rates steady at the coming meeting.
Household consumption expanded by 0.3% over the quarter, its slowest pace
since the first quarter 2015. The contribution to the annualized GDP growth
(1.992% unrounded) from consumption was 0.7 percentage points, about half what
of its contribution was in the second quarter. However, the BOC's scenario was
already based on a consumer spending slowdown, although not as rapidly given the
expectation of rising wages.
In the BOC's scenario, exports and business investment are expected to
offer an offset to slower consumer consumption. However, business investment
failed to pick up the slack in the third quarter, and instead contracted 1.5%.
Notably, investment in non-residential structures, machinery and equipment fell
1.8%, the largest drop since the fourth quarter 2016, with a deceleration in the
oil and gas sector weighing on investment in engineering structures. Still,
machinery and equipment fell 3.5%, the largest decrease in two years.
On the export front, the growth rate was just 0.2% in the third quarter
following a strong 3.1% gain in the previous quarter.
In addition, a surprise 0.1% GDP contraction in September showed the
economy lost momentum, handing off a weak start to the fourth quarter, when GDP
is expected to rebound 2.3%, according to the BOC.
--MNI Ottawa Bureau; +1 613 869-0916; email: yali.ndiaye@marketnews.com
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