Canada: January GDP numbers are ancient history – BMO
|Canadian January numbers are ancient history now given how the economic landscape has drastically shifted. GDP advanced 0.1% in the first month of the year, Benjamin Reitzes from BMO inform.
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“The Canadian economy grew 0.1% in January, slightly below expected, from an unrevised 0.3% increase in the prior month.”
“Gains in manufacturing, wholesale and finance were largely offset by a drop in transportation, education, utilities and mining, oil & gas.”
“January numbers are ancient history now given how the economic landscape has drastically shifted. Even so, today's number will help fine tune Q1 GDP forecasts. (...) With the virus-mitigation measures almost certainly continuing through April, Q2 is going to get hit much, much harder.”
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