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December 04, 2024
AVERAGE RETAIL PRICES, OCTOBER 2024

Statistics Canada makes available scanner data on prices collected for a range of food and personal care items.  These prices are collected through point-of-sale (transaction) data obtained directly from Canadian retailers.  The data represent commonly purchased items (which do change over time), but are not representative of the Consumer Price Index weights.  Over time, products are rotated and quantity or quality may change.  Comparisons of prices from one time period to...

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December 04, 2024
CANADA BUSINESS SECTOR LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY, Q3 2024

Labour productivity of Canadian businesses decreased at a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 1.5% from Q2 2024 to Q3 2024, following a loss of 0.5% in Q2 2024. Hours worked increased 1.9% and output was up 0.4%. 

Total compensation per hour increased at a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 4.0% in Q3 2024, the fourteenth consecutive incre...

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December 03, 2024
INVESTORS AMONG RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE BUYERS, 2018-2020

Today Statistics Canada has released their most recent report on the role of real estate investors in the Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and British Columbia property markets. This analysis covers the period of 2018-2020, and provides insight into the role of investors prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and in the first year of the pandemic. This report will serve as a baseline for analysis of the pandemic and post-pandemic years. For the purposes of this study, an investor is defined as the owner of...

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December 02, 2024
US CONSTRUCTION SPENDING, OCTOBER 2024

Month over month (October 2024 vs September 2024), seasonally adjusted annual rate)

US construction spending increased 0.4% to $2,174.0 billion.                                                                                             ...

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December 02, 2024
EU AND EURO AREA UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, OCTOBER 2024

Eurostat has reported that the unemployment rate in the Euro Area was unchanged at 6.3% in October 2024. For the broader 27 countries of the entire European Union, the unemployment rate was unchanged at 5.9% in October 2024.

In October, youth unemployment rates declined to 15.2% from 15.3% in September in the European Union and up to 15.0% from 14.9% in Septe...

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