{"id":160,"date":"2026-10-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/?p=160"},"modified":"2026-10-29T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T09:00:00","slug":"bank-of-canada-raises-key-rate-to-2-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/2026\/10\/29\/bank-of-canada-raises-key-rate-to-2-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of Canada Raises Key Rate to 2.5%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/anita-shumlick\/boc-oct-raise\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Bank of Canada raised its key rate 0.25% to 2.5%, its first hike since July 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Officials warned that rising energy costs could fuel broader inflation, raising the 2027 inflation forecast to 3.1%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The next rate decision is December 9, 2026, with further hikes possible depending on inflation and economic conditions.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of Canada raised its key rate 0.25% to 2.5%, its first hike since July 2023. &#8211; Officials warned that rising energy costs could fuel broader inflation, raising the 2027 inflation forecast to 3.1%. &#8211; The next rate decision is December 9, 2026, with further hikes possible depending on inflation and economic conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anitashumlick.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}