Economic Calendar

Mar 4, 2025 - 14:47

March 2025

DATE	STATISTIC	FOR	CURRENT MONTH	PREVIOUS MONTH
Friday, March 28, 2025	GDP: 8:30am	Jan	---	Real gross domestic product increased 0.6% in the fourth quarter, after rising 0.5% in the third quarter. Growth in the fourth quarter was driven by higher household final consumption expenditures and increased exports and business investment.
Thursday, March 27, 2025	Payroll Employment, Earnings and Hours: 8:30am	Jan	---	The number of employees receiving pay and benefits from their employer—measured as "payroll employment" in the Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours—increased by 25,300 (+0.1%) in December, following a decrease of 14,400 (-0.1%) in November and three consecutive months of little change from August to October.
Friday, March 21, 2025	Retail Trade: 8:30am	Jan	---	Retail sales increased 2.5% to $69.6 billion in December. Sales were up in all nine subsectors and were led by increases at food and beverage retailers and motor vehicle and parts dealers.
Thursday, March 20, 2025	New Housing Price Index: 8:30am	Feb	---	The national index edged down 0.1% on a month-over-month basis in January, following the same decline in the previous month.
Thursday, March 20, 2025	Industrial Product Price Index: 8:30am	Feb	---	The index rose 1.6% month over month in January and increased 5.8% year over year.
Thursday, March 20, 2025	Raw Materials Price Index: 8:30am	Feb	---	The index grew 3.7% on a monthly basis and increased 11.8% year over year.
Tuesday, March 18, 2025	Consumer Price Index: 8:30am	Feb	---	The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 1.9% on a year-over-year basis in January, up from a 1.8% increase in December. On a seasonally adjusted monthly basis, the CPI rose 0.1% in January.
Monday, March 17, 2025	Housing Starts: 8:15am	Feb	---	Housing starts in January totaled 239,700, compared to 232,500 in the prior-year month.
Monday, March 17, 2025	Canada's International Transactions in Securities: 8:30am	Jan	---	Furthermore, data revealed that foreign investors purchased a net $14.37 billion in Canadian securities in December. Meanwhile, Canadian investors acquired $3.8 billion of foreign securities, down from a $17.6 billion investment in November.
Monday, March 17, 2025	CREAstats - MLS Sales: 8:30am	Feb	---	National home sales fell 3.3% month-over-month. Actual (not seasonally adjusted) monthly activity came in 2.9% above January 2024.
Friday, March 14, 2025	Monthly Survey of Manufacturing: 8:30am	Jan	---	Manufacturing sales rose 0.3% in December, driven primarily by higher sales of petroleum and coal as well as food products.
Friday, March 14, 2025	Wholesale Trade: 8:30am	Jan	---	Wholesale sales (excluding petroleum, petroleum products, and other hydrocarbons and excluding oilseed and grain) fell 0.2% to $83.6 billion in December.
Friday, March 14, 2025	New Motor Vehicle Sales: 7:30am	Jan	---	Motor vehicle sales declined to 135,500 in December from 161,500 in November.
Thursday, March 13, 2025	Building Permits: 8:30am	Jan	---	The total value of building permits rose 11.0% to $13.1 billion in December.
Wednesday, March 12, 2025	BoC Interest Rate Decision: 10:00am	Mar	---	The Bank of Canada today reduced its target for the overnight rate to 3%, with the Bank Rate at 3.25% and the deposit rate at 2.95%
Friday, March 7, 2025	Labour Force Survey: 8:30am	Feb	---	Employment increased by 76,000 (+0.4%) in January and the unemployment rate declined 0.1 percentage points to 6.6%.
Thursday, March 6, 2025	Canadian International Merchandise Trade: 8:30am	Jan	---	In December, Canada's merchandise exports increased 4.9% and imports were up 2.3%. As a result, Canada's merchandise trade balance with the world went from a deficit of $986 million in November to a surplus of $708 million in December.
Thursday, March 6, 2025	IVEY Purchasing Managers Index: 10:00am	Feb	---	The index backed off sharply last month to 47.1 from 54.7 in December and from 56.5 in January 2024.
Monday, March 3, 2025	Markit Canada Manufacturing PMI 9:30 a.m.	Feb	The S&P Global Canada Manufacturing PMI fell to 47.8 in February of 2025 from 51.6 in the previous month, contrasting sharply with market expectations of 51.9 to mark the first decline in factory activity since August of last year.	The S&P Global Canada Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell to 51.6 in January from 52.2 in December. Still, it was the fifth straight month above the 50.0 no-change mark. A reading above 50 indicates expansion in the sector.