Stewart Hall Quotations

We've already had a decent amount of experience with a Canadian minority government. While the deck chairs may have been pushed around a lot, do the fundamentals really seriously change?

On any Saturday morning trip out of the house one would be hard pressed not to have noticed rapidly rising home prices, the spike in gasoline costs, and less enticing financing for vehicles.

We've got the economy at full capacity. I prefer to see the Bank of Canada continue to raise rates.

With the economy close to full capacity, the Bank of Canada should be interested in offsetting any additional fiscal stimulus that may flow from an election-style budget.

Tomorrow is largely a foregone conclusion in the mind of the market.

There is a better story underneath the report than is indicated by the headline. There seems to be a lot of adversity facing Canada, yet the annual GDP numbers remain very stable.

You got a lot of people targeting 1.12. People are hopping onto the train.

Arguably they're trying to maintain a level of uncertainty ... that perhaps they're concerned about financial flows, hot money flows, moving into the currency market and carrying the Canadian dollar higher.

The statement indicates the central bank is putting a cap on its rate-hike cycle. There is a logical response for the Canadian dollar to weaken.

There's been a disconnect with the market having been too caught up with Fed language from Nov. 1, and missing the body of data that's come out since then.

On balance, the data has proved reasonably positive for the U.S. economy, which would in turn support a continuation of the rate cycle.

The idea in the marketplace that (the Canadian dollar) is a one-way trade is possibly drawing unwanted investor attention with potential implications affecting the fabric of an economy in the midst of a resource reallocation process.

The currency market tends to respond to the number.