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The best instant approval credit cards in Canada for July 2023
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Making sense of the markets this week: July 16, 2023
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Kyle Prevost, editor of Million Dollar Journey and founder of the Canadian Financial Summit, shares financial headlines and offers context for Canadian investors.
Hello again, MSOTM readers. I’m back from an all-too-brief summer vacation, and I’m ready to zero in on where the markets are headed. A big thanks, as always, to Dale Roberts for pinch-hitting while I was away.
Canadian mortgage holders suffer another rate hike
The Bank of Canada (BoC) delivered another widely expected 0.25% interest rate hike on Wednesday. The last time interest rates were this high was April 2001. Beyoncé was still fronting Destiny’s Child and this year’s recent college graduates weren’t even born yet.
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