OTTAWA – Statistics Canada reports the annual pace of inflation in March slowed to a pace last seen in 2015 as the economy was gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The agency says the consumer price index for March was up 0.9 per cent compared with a year ago.
Huge drop in inflation:
"The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.9% on a year-over-year basis in March, down from a 2.2% increase in February."
-Statistics Canada
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The reading compared with a year-over-year increase of 2.2 per cent in February.
Economists on average had expected a reading of 1.2 per cent for March, according to financial markets data firm Refinitiv.
Energy prices fell 11.6 per cent on a year-over-year basis in March.
Excluding energy, the consumer price index rose 1.7 per cent.
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2020-04-22 12:36:45Z
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