Bank of Canada hikes key interest rate by 0.5 percentage points.
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Canada's central bank continued its campaign to wrestle high inflation into submission, raising its benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points to 3.75%.
As James Orlando explains, on rising prices, it stated that "measures of core inflation are not yet showing meaningful evidence that u...