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B.C. price inflation bucked the trend in December, but not in a good way. Despite the GST tax holiday, inflation in the province increased to 2.6 per...
The B.C. housing market reported lower sales in December, marking the first monthly decline since August. Seasonally adjusted MLS home sales in the...
British Columbia’s labour market picked up in December with a 0.5-per-cent gain following a flat November. This translated to 14,100 more people...
B.C. retailers posted a stronger start to the fourth quarter with sales up 0.9 per cent to reach $9.1 billion in October. This added to September’s...
British Columbia employment remained virtually unchanged in November with only 1,400 more people working compared with the previous month....
The latest Survey of Employers, Payroll and Hours pointed to a stall in B.C. hiring in September. Total payroll counts decreased by 0.2 per cent,...
September was a positive month for retailers both in B.C. and across Canada. Nationally, retail spending rose 0.4 per cent in September from August...
Housing market activity in B.C. reported significant gains in October following months of lackluster results. On a monthly basis, seasonally...
Following five consecutive monthly declines, British Columbia employment grew for the first time in October with an increase of 8,300 people (up...
Optimism among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) was steady but soft in October, according to the Canadian Federation of Independent...
Bucking the Canadian trend, B.C. retail spending slowed in August with a one-per-cent drop, in contrast to the 0.4-per-cent national increase. At a...
B.C.’s inflation rate slowed in September on a year-over-year basis to two per cent from 2.4 per cent in August. While the highest rate among...
It was another downbeat month for B.C.’s labour market in September with employment down for a fifth consecutive month. Employment fell by 18,000...
Housing market activity in the Lower Mainland sputtered again in September, even as affordability conditions started to improve for homebuyers....
B.C.’s housing market remained mired in its slump in August despite Bank of Canada rate cuts. On a monthly basis, seasonally adjusted MLS home...
Canadian building permits rebounded in July after two months of declining values. This recovery was driven in large part by B.C., where permit...
The pace of inflation in B.C. sped up in July on a month-to-month basis as the province’s consumer price index rose to 2.8 per cent from 2.6 per...
B.C. employment softened again in July with a monthly decline of 10,300 people (down 0.4 per cent), underperforming the rest of the country....
Last week was a light one for B.C. economic data, ahead of labour market and early housing market data set to be released this week. The key data...
Housing market activity in B.C. picked up pace in June, following months of low sales volume. Seasonally adjusted MLS home sales in B.C. came in at...