Investors betting the Bank of Canada will cut rates in coming months to counter fallout U.S. bank collapses
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Esteban Duarte and Erik Hertzberg
Published Mar 13, 2023 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read
Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem. Photo by Blair Gable/Reuters The yield on short-term Canada bonds is falling at the fastest rate in decades, as investors bet the Bank of Canada will cut rates in coming months to counter fallout from the collapse of United States regional banks.
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Traders in overnight interest swaps are now pricing in rate cuts from the Bank of Canada by June. Last week, traders were expecting the next move to be a hike.
It was a day of investors seeking safe havens as the collapse of regional U.S. lenders Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank rattled investor confidence in the U.S. banking system. Gold jumped and U.S. Treasury yields also saw a historic decline. Economists at Nomura Securities predicted the United States Federal Reserve will reverse course and cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage-point at next week’s policy meeting.
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“We are in behavioural finance-land now and it’s safe to assume that investors will likely stay careful and fly to safety until we have a complete picture of the situation,” said Sebastien Mc Mahon, chief strategist and senior economist at Industrial Alliance Investment Management Inc.
It’s “quite unlikely” that the Canadian yield curve will diverge significantly from the U.S., Mc Mahon said.
“We believe financial stability concerns spilling over from the U.S. is material enough to rethink the market reaction function in Canada,” Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce fixed-income strategists Ian Pollick and Sarah Ying said Monday in a report to investors.
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