{"id":13,"date":"2026-09-03T17:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.room-vu.com\/sharonfinancial-ca\/2026\/09\/03\/bank-of-canada-holds-at-2-25\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T17:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:26:18","slug":"bank-of-canada-holds-at-2-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/2026\/09\/03\/bank-of-canada-holds-at-2-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of Canada Holds at 2.25%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>The Bank of Canada kept its key policy rate at 2.25% on Wednesday, in line with expectations, while Governor Tiff Macklem signalled that further increases remain possible if inflation does not ease. For Canadians, the decision is a reminder that borrowing costs can change quickly. Households should review monthly cash flow, stress-test mortgage and loan payments, and reconsider non-essential debt. Borrowers may also want to compare fixed and variable-rate options with a qualified adviser. Monitoring inflation data and future Bank of Canada announcements can help Canadians make more informed financial decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of Canada kept its key policy rate at 2.25% on Wednesday, in line with expectations, while Governor Tiff Macklem signalled that further increases remain possible if inflation does not ease. For Canadians, the decision is a reminder that borrowing costs can change quickly. Households should review monthly cash flow, stress-test mortgage and loan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":50,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sharonfinancial.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}