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The Bank of Canada has raised its policy interest rate by half a percentage point for the first time in decades, a move intended to slow runaway inflation. The rate hike brings the Bank’s policy interest rate, also known as the overnight rate, up to 1% from the previous 0.5%. 

It’s the second time the Bank has raised its target interest rate this year, and the first time it has done so beyond a 0.25% increment since May 2000. After maintaining a benchmark rate of 0.25% in January—a record low first implemented in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic—it increased the rate to half a percentage point in early March. 

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Inflation, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), has fuelled the need for a tightening of monetary policy in Canada…

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