Builder to break ground on Colwood City Centre development

With financial markets in turmoil, it may seem odd timing for a developer to be preparing a site for ground breaking, but Adam Gant says the timing is right for the $1-billion Colwood City Centre development to start coming out of the ground.

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Builder to break ground on Colwood City Centre development

Bank of Canada rate bump not necessarily a harbinger of hikes to come

Vancouver Sun- On the same day the Bank of Canada bumped its key lending rate up, a major chartered bank edged a key mortgage rate down, moves that reflected the continuing uncertainty in world financial markets.

The Bank of Canada on Tuesday became the first G7 central bank to raise interest rates since July 2008, hiking its key overnight lending rate one-quarter of a percentage point to 0.5 per cent in a long-anticipated move aimed at keeping Canada’s recovering economy from overheating.

However, with uncertainty over the global economy mounting due to turmoil in the European Union, the pressure for future short-term rate increases might be easing.

The turmoil has caused interest rates for longer-term bonds to fall, allowing the Bank of Montreal to trim its five-year discount mortgage rate one-tenth of a percentage point to 4.25 per cent…

Bank of Canada rate bump not necessarily a harbinger of hikes to come

2008: A year of turmoil | TheStar.com | Business

 Toronto Star – Ontario, Canada By year-end, Japan, the US, Canada and most of Europe were in recessions. Iceland, a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, …

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