💡Don’t miss the Mortgage Tidbits at the end—buried treasure awaits. Friday's job reports sent bonds tumbling faster than a loonie down a Bay Street storm drain. MLN's got the lowdown on that, plus a fresh batch of mortgage nuggets to pad your off-hours reading

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.

Tomorrow's Bank of Canada meeting effectively marks the one-year anniversary since the BoC started its rate cut campaign, one in which it's shaved a cool 225 basis points off floating-rate borrowing costs. On the eve of the Bank of Canada's rate decision, yields climbed.