{"id":303669,"date":"2026-02-18T04:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T04:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303669\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T04:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T04:30:13","slug":"bank-of-canada-cuts-are-back-on-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303669\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank Of Canada Cuts Are Back On The Table"},"content":{"rendered":"

next release. Strip away that noise and the BoC\u2019s preferred core gauges look tame \u2013 the three-month annualized average of core median and trimmed-mean inflation<\/a> fell to 1.2%, the weakest since May 2020.<\/p>\n

Why should I care?<\/p>\n

For markets: Easier money is creeping into the forecast.<\/p>\n

Traders are increasingly penciling in a mid-year BoC cut, especially if upcoming growth prints disappoint. The details matter: shelter is doing more of the disinflation heavy lifting, with rent posting its biggest monthly drop since 2020, and private asking-rent measures have been cooling for a while. If that holds, bond<\/a> yields and rate-sensitive stocks could end up taking their cues from housing costs as much as from the headline CPI number.<\/p>\n

The bigger picture: Trade shocks could muddy the landing.<\/p>\n

Cooling inflation doesn\u2019t eliminate outside risks. Desjardins flags the upcoming Canada\u2013US\u2013Mexico Agreement review as a potential source of tariff and supply-chain uncertainty, and goods prices looked a bit firmer in January. Even so, it notes short-term core-goods inflation is still near pre-pandemic norms, suggesting any trade-driven price bumps could be offset by softer pricing elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"next release. Strip away that noise and the BoC\u2019s preferred core gauges look tame \u2013 the three-month annualized…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-303669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}