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8 Jun 2017
BoC's Poloz: At this stage, I'm comforted that economy is showing better dynamics
Additional comments keep crossing the wires, via Reuters, from BoC's Governor Stephen Poloz in a Q&A session:
- Whether our banks have been downgraded or not, they're extremely highly rated
- The longer home prices rise unsustainably, the more you become concerned anything could trigger correction
- What we're cognizant of is there has been an increase in debt in the economy so interest rate sensitivity could be higher
- The average consumer is not the highly indebted consumer we're concerned about
- The average consumer has assets and no debt; there's a lot of assets out there
- Resilience is rising in the background even if vulnerabilities are also rising in the foreground
- Toronto, Vancouver housing markets are not by any stretch entirely speculative
- We've seen big rise in supply of houses in Toronto that people are willing to sell