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Royal Bank of Canada, the country’s biggest lender, said on Tuesday it would cut its prime lending rate by 15 basis points, becoming the first of Canada’s big banks to trim borrowing costs nearly a week after the central bank stunned markets with a rate cut.
Banks Cut Prime to 2.85%: Housing Headlines
– ratesupermarket.ca
The stalemate between Canada’s banks and the standard set by the Bank of Canada has ended; the “Big 5” have finally responded to last week’s Overnight Lending Rate cut by lowering their Prime rates to 2.85 per cent, effective today.
Royal Bank of Canada was the first to announce they would implement the discount, releasing the news at 3:50 p.m. on Tuesday. By 6:21 p.m., all the other banks had followed suit – including TD, which famously stated early on that they would not be altering their prime rate in response to the announcement.
And it’s about time – while the banks in the past have followed the BoC’s lead within hours or minutes, it took a full week for them to pass the savings down to their variable borrowing customers (though it took less than 24 hours for RBC and TD to slash their savings rates). The banks’ slow start frustrated customers and drew criticism that they were failing to aid in the BoC’s efforts to stimulate the economy with lower rates…
Royal Bank of Canada was the first to announce they would implement the discount, releasing the news at 3:50 p.m. on Tuesday. By 6:21 p.m., all the other banks had followed suit – including TD, which famously stated early on that they would not be altering their prime rate in response to the announcement.
And it’s about time – while the banks in the past have followed the BoC’s lead within hours or minutes, it took a full week for them to pass the savings down to their variable borrowing customers (though it took less than 24 hours for RBC and TD to slash their savings rates). The banks’ slow start frustrated customers and drew criticism that they were failing to aid in the BoC’s efforts to stimulate the economy with lower rates…
Happy Wednesday; you’re halfway through! There is a lot going on today, from the U.S. Fed’s rate announcement (or lack thereof) to the release of Facebook’s fourth-quarter earnings. In Canada, the big stories are unspecified job cuts to Tim Hortons’ head office, the yuan overtaking the loonie as a global currency, and the banks’ prime-rate cuts, which aren’t keeping pace with the Bank of Canada’s own rate cut last week.
But first, today’s mind-blowing fact: Blowing past even the highest expectations, Apple announced yesterday that in the last three months alone, it sold 74.5 million iPhones. Think about that for a second: That’s kind of like if everyone in Canada, including grandmothers and toddlers, went out and bought two iPhones over Christmas, except for the population of B.C., where almost everyone bought three. How did they do it? One word: China. This makes Apple, for the first time, the top smartphone brand in the country…
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Banks Cut Prime to 2.85%: Housing Headlines
– ratesupermarket.ca
The stalemate between Canada’s banks and the standard set by the Bank of Canada has ended; the “Big 5” have finally responded to last week’s Overnight Lending Rate cut by lowering their Prime rates to 2.85 per cent, effective today.
Royal Bank of Canada was the first to announce they would implement the discount, releasing the news at 3:50 p.m. on Tuesday. By 6:21 p.m., all the other banks had followed suit – including TD, which famously stated early on that they would not be altering their prime rate in response to the announcement.
And it’s about time – while the banks in the past have followed the BoC’s lead within hours or minutes, it took a full week for them to pass the savings down to their variable borrowing customers (though it took less than 24 hours for RBC and TD to slash their savings rates). The banks’ slow start frustrated customers and drew criticism that they were failing to aid in the BoC’s efforts to stimulate the economy with lower rates…
Royal Bank of Canada was the first to announce they would implement the discount, releasing the news at 3:50 p.m. on Tuesday. By 6:21 p.m., all the other banks had followed suit – including TD, which famously stated early on that they would not be altering their prime rate in response to the announcement.
And it’s about time – while the banks in the past have followed the BoC’s lead within hours or minutes, it took a full week for them to pass the savings down to their variable borrowing customers (though it took less than 24 hours for RBC and TD to slash their savings rates). The banks’ slow start frustrated customers and drew criticism that they were failing to aid in the BoC’s efforts to stimulate the economy with lower rates…
