Making sense of the markets this week: July 21, 2024 Jul 19th

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Inflation continues to fall as temperature rise

As we’re moving through summer’s dog days and heat records are being broken around the world, Canadian inflation is moving in the opposite direction. Statistics Canada released that the year-over-year Consumer Price Index (CPI) increase cooled to 2.7% in June. As inflation continues its downward trend, it generally indicates that the Bank of Canada’s monetary policy is working.

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Source: Statistics Canada

Consumer price index June 2024 report highlights
The main takeaways from the monthly CPI report are:

Core CPI (excluding food and energy) stayed stubbornly higher than the headline CPI, coming in at an annualized 2…

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