Poloz is singing a happy tune and it’s giving a slight lift to the Canadian dollar.

  • Ingredients are present for more business investment, just need more confidence
  • Becoming more confident of increased business investment
  • Capacity utilization is quite high so if exporters get new contracts, they will have to invest
  • BOC trying to balance risk of overstretched households and low inflation

USD/CAD down a few pips to 1.1022.