Canada housing starts for the month of May
- Canadian housing starts came in at 193.5K vs. 160.0K estimate overall but a shutdown and reopenign in the province of Quebec skewed the data
- Prior month 166.47K
- gain of 16.2%
- single family detached rose by 22.8%. All others increased by 13.8%
Rebound higher after the sharp fall over the last few months took the index from 218.5 in January to the low last month at 166.47.