{"id":540022,"date":"2026-03-16T11:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540022\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:43:13","slug":"statistics-canada-set-to-publish-fresh-inflation-data-for-february-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540022\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics Canada set to publish fresh inflation data for February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Fresh inflation data is expected out of Statistics Canada today. <\/p>\n<p>A Reuters poll predicted a drop in February\u2019s annual inflation rate to 1.9 per cent from 2.3 per cent in January. <\/p>\n<p>The inflation data will factor into the Bank of Canada\u2019s interest rate decision set for Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The central bank held its key rate at 2.25 per cent last month. <\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Statistics Canada said the economy shed 84,000 jobs in February, driving the unemployment rate up two-tenths of a point to 6.7 per cent. <\/p>\n<p>CIBC senior economist Katherine Judge called it a \u201cbad report on almost every single measure\u201d though she notes the labour market softness should offset inflationary pressures from the oil price spike driven by the Mideast War. <\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 16, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Fresh inflation data is expected out of Statistics Canada today. A Reuters poll predicted a drop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-540022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}