The Bank of Canada (BoC) held its policy rate at 5.00% at its October announcement, and maintained a moderate tightening bias. However, we believe the BoC's interest rate pause will be an interest rate peak. Given we forecast slower growth and inflation than the central bank, we expect policy rate to hold steady for an extended period, before rate cuts begin in Q2-2024.
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