Economics
Bank of Canada Keeps Key Rate at 1% as Europe Crisis Deepens
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The Bank of Canada kept its key policy interest rate unchanged today and cited Europe’s deepening debt crisis as raising risks to global economic growth.
The Ottawa-based central bank left its target for overnight loans between commercial banks at 1 percent, where it has been since September 2010, as forecast by all 26 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News.