💡See also: Mortgage Tidbits below. For months now, bond investors have yearned for trade certainty. Well, now they're finally getting it—sort of. What they're learning is that countries are being forced to pay hefty Trump tariffs, kind of like shakedown money to do business with

💡See also: Mortgage Tidbits below, with a shiny new feature announcement. The conflicting forces acting on Canadian yields are as powerful as lunar tides. Tuesday’s rate action was a perfect example.

💡See the Latest from Rateland below, including a few lender moves worth attention. Canada’s 5-year yield, fresh off a two-month breakout, eased back on Monday. Here’s why it lost some steam...

💡See also: Mortgage Tidbits below (including a few business builders) With Friday serving up no important domestic data releases, Canada’s 5-year yield drifted with global currents like a rudderless dinghy, closing flat on the day. Fortunately, encouraging signals on inflation expectations broke the monotony.