{"id":58769,"date":"2025-04-19T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/04\/19\/unpacking-the-bank-of-canadas-pause-fp-video-talks-to-the-economists\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T11:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T11:00:20","slug":"unpacking-the-bank-of-canadas-pause-fp-video-talks-to-the-economists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/04\/19\/unpacking-the-bank-of-canadas-pause-fp-video-talks-to-the-economists\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpacking the Bank of Canada&#039;s pause: FP Video talks to the economists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tiff-macklem-0417-ph.jpg\" title=\"Tiff Macklem, governor of the Bank of Canada, held interest rates at 2.75 per cent this week. \n\n\" alt=\"Tiff Macklem, governor of the Bank of Canada, held interest rates at 2.75 per cent this week. \n\n\" data-portal-copyright=\"Peter J. Thompson\/National Post\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-license-id=\"3831956\" \/><\/p>\n<p>                    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bank of Canada rate to go lower, but not too low: Desjardins\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pBaHXZnOqKE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n                    <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> Donald Trump\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>                 trade war fits and starts continued to buffet stock markets and upend international relations this week as the United States president floated a pause on auto tariffs but then barred <\/p>\n<p>                Nvidia Corp.<\/p>\n<p>                 from selling a specialty chip to China. <\/p>\n<p> Amid this turmoil the <\/p>\n<p>                Bank of Canada<\/p>\n<p>                 held its key interest rate Wednesday and FP Video talked with economists about the reasoning behind the decision and where policymakers might go from here. <\/p>\n<p> FP Video&rsquo;s Larysa Harapyn also spoke with mortgage broker Ron Bulter about what it will take to get Canada&rsquo;s &ldquo;muted&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>                housing market<\/p>\n<p>                 moving. And energy analyst Eric Nuttall filled us in on the opportunities <\/p>\n<p>                Trump\u2019s trade war<\/p>\n<p>                 could create for the Canadian oil industry. <\/p>\n<h2>Bank of Canada rate to go lower, but not too low<\/h2>\n<p> Randall Bartlett, deputy chief economist at Desjardins Group, talks about how the Bank of Canada will want to keep its foot near the brake as it eyes further interest rate cuts. <\/p>\n<p>                    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Canada&#039;s housing market softest in decades\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vvS36tVTaTQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n                    <\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>More rate cuts won\u2019t boost \u2018muted\u2019 housing market<\/h2>\n<p> Ron Butler, a broker with Butler Mortgage, talks about what is happening in the mortgage and housing markets and the role future Bank of Canada interest rate cuts could play. <\/p>\n<p>                    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Canada could be &#039;last man standing&#039; for oil supply\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E1SgLMSWNCo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n                    <\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Canada could be \u2018last man standing\u2019 for oil supply<\/h2>\n<p> Eric Nuttall, senior portfolio manager at Ninepoint Partners LP, talks about how Canadian oil producers are stronger than United States rivals as&nbsp; Trump&lsquo;s trade policies rock the world. <\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t_7jsQqbNTk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t_7jsQqbNTk<\/a><br \/>\n                    <\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Bank of Canada should cut interest rates<\/h2>\n<p> Benjamin Tal, deputy chief economist at CIBC Capital Markets, talks about the impact of uncertainty under Trump on Canada&rsquo;s economy, which may already be in recession. <\/p>\n<p>            <iframe src=\"https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/22097836\/embed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul class=\"related_links\">\n<li>Auto tariffs could be &#8216;quite devastating&#8217;: Linda Hasenfratz<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Unprecedented&#8217; times will test investors: Kelley Keehn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <em><strong>Bookmark our website and support our journalism:<\/strong> Don\u2019t miss the business news you need to know \u2014 add financialpost.com to your bookmarks and sign up for our newsletters here.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n<br \/>Unpacking the Bank of Canada&#039;s pause: FP Video talks to the economists<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-04-19 11:00:20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s trade war fits and starts continued to buffet stock markets and upend international relations this week as the United States president floated a pause on auto tariffs but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}