If you're a national lender or broker and you want to know how your average loan sizes stack up, these are the latest benchmarks from Equifax.

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Yields inched higher ahead of the second-most anxiously awaited economic ritual of the month—StatCan's monthly job lotto, also known as the Labour Force Survey. Here’s what jerked yields around on Thursday, and in which direction.

Reader note: As some folks have been missing the stories in MLN's daily summaries, each article will now be sent by email. Barring momentous news, however, we'll spare your inbox to two mails a day. The Bank of Canada showed up today, but rates barely noticed.