What’s on horizon for U.S. and Canada?

By Staff | September 4, 2014 | Last updated on September 4, 2014
2 min read

These days, it’s hard to decipher economic data.

That’s because “investors and economies share something in common these days: both are suffering from split personalities,” says Avery Shenfeld, chief economist at CIBC World Markets in a recent report.

“Bonds have rallied as if the global economy is coming apart,” he adds, while “stocks have climbed as if all is well.”

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As such, Shenfeld doesn’t predict economic outperformance for 2015. “More likely,” he says, “2015 [to] 2016 will see global growth still stuck in a middling 3.5% range, with the U.S. and Canada each a bit under 3% in 2015.”

Nonetheless, “the U.S. should crank out…decent quarters [and] make further headway on its output gap, [as well as] bring an earlier-than-expected turn in monetary policy. We don’t need full employment to justify a move off a zero rate policy designed for emergency use.”

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In Canada, he adds, “neither housing nor consumption…can be the permanent drivers of growth, so all eyes will be on capital spending and exports. The market’s response will be less about getting 2.5% growth to close the output gap [and more] about the policy backdrop needed to [achieve that].”

Read: Real estate won’t boost economy

For more on Shenfeld’s forecast for Canada and the U.S., click here.

Also read:

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