The Canadian dollar – known as the “loonie” – lost ground to the US dollar this morning on news that the Canadian economy expanded by an annualized rate of 2.9 percent in February. This is the lowest increase in a year and contributed to the loonie’s 0.1 percent to 95.13 cents against the US dollar from 95.06 cents yesterday.
“GDP was a little weaker than expected and what that’s really done is push expectations of a rate hike from BOC from July to September,†said Blake Jespersen, director of foreign exchange in Toronto at Bank of Montreal.
Source: Bloomberg
