{"id":69261,"date":"2026-01-28T21:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/28\/small-but-growing-case-for-lower-interest-rates-royce-mendes\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T21:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:11:12","slug":"small-but-growing-case-for-lower-interest-rates-royce-mendes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/28\/small-but-growing-case-for-lower-interest-rates-royce-mendes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Small but growing case&#039; for lower interest rates: Royce Mendes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<br \/><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;Small but growing case&#039; for lower interest rates,\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2sxxaS8ZIAA?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> Royce Mendes, managing director and head of macro strategy at <\/p>\n<p>                        Desjardins Group<\/p>\n<p>                        , talks to Financial Post\u2019s Larysa Harapyn about how the <\/p>\n<p>                        Bank of Canada<\/p>\n<p>                         made the right call by holding its <\/p>\n<p>                        interest rate<\/p>\n<p>                         and signalling that it was monitoring risks to the economy. <\/p>\n<ul class=\"related_links\">\n<li>Chances of market correction &#8216;substantially higher&#8217; than expected: Ed Devlin<\/li>\n<li>Ron Butler says forget about a spring recovery in Canada&#8217;s housing market<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <em>\u2022 Email: lharapyn@postmedia.com<\/em> <\/p>\n\n<br \/>&#039;Small but growing case&#039; for lower interest rates: Royce Mendes<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-01-28 21:11:12<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royce Mendes, managing director and head of macro strategy at Desjardins Group , talks to Financial Post\u2019s Larysa Harapyn about how the Bank of Canada made the right call by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/no0128bocJPG.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69261","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=69261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/69263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}