💡See also: Mortgage Tidbits (below). While investors braced in suspense for Friday’s U.S. inflation numbers, Trump was busy lighting up the headlines on Thursday. Not only did he impose sanctions on Russia and finally set a meeting with China's Xi, but he also cut off all

💡See also: Mortgage Tidbits (below). We've got some big ones today. Canadian yields barely budged yesterday, despite Tuesday's too-hot-to-trot inflation surprise. The more interesting tale is what we heard after the bell from Mark Carney.

💡See also: Mortgage Tidbits (below). Canadian inflation popped its head above 2% for the first time in half a year—2.4%, to be precise. But that wasn't the number that mattered. It was the annualized average core reading that weighed on the market’s rate-cut enthusiasm.

💡See also: Mortgage Tidbits (below). The highlight of Monday’s economic theatre was the Bank of Canada’s expectations surveys, which could have been better (more on that below). Meanwhile, down in Washington, Federal Reserve officials are still wandering the policy wilderness without a data compass, thanks to day twenty