Provisus Monthly Insight – March 2018

STOCK SECTORS AFTER RATE HIKES – Last year the Bank of Canada (BOC) implemented its first interest rate hike since 2010 and many investors reached for their crystal balls to try and forecast the future. While rising rates tend to signal stronger economic conditions and inflationary pressures, they can also have a meaningful impact on stock market sector returns. Changing the overnight interest rate, which is the cost that depository institutions pay to borrow money, is how the BOC attempts to control inflation. When the BOC increases the overnight rate, it does not directly affect the stock market but it does have a ripple effect that can rock the market. However some sectors benefit from interest rate hikes and others do not.

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