Canada's December inflation dashes hopes of early rate cut
OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada's annual inflation rate rose as expected in December, data showed on Tuesday, and underlying prices pressures remained, dashing hopes that the central bank would shift into rate-cut mode early this year. Annual inflation rose to 3.4% in December from 3.1% in November, Statistics Canada said, matching estimates by economists polled by Reuters. Two of the Bank of Canada's (BoC's) core measures of underlying inflation, CPI-trim and CPI-median, accelerated, with the three-month annualized rate of the two rising to 3.6% from an upwardly revised 2.9% in the ...