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Re: Negative Interest Rate - ketchim - 02-10-2016
A bunch of Amrican economics wizards making decisions:
with Head in Sand !
It has not worked in Japan nor Sweden nor any of Europe !
Re: Negative Interest Rate - ketchim - 02-10-2016
With negative rates, banks’ margins will stay low and the financial situation of the banks
will stay precarious !
Mapoui may be witnessing the end of Banks and Currency ! 8)
Re: Negative Interest Rate - boomer - 02-10-2016
Canada's economic problems are because of the Bank of Canada's failed monetary policy. A policy whereby the Bank of Canada (over a 15 year period) has consistently lowered interest rates below a certain threshold thereby encouraging people and governments to incur far too much debt. No doubt that increased personal and government debt provides a "quick boost" to economic activity. However the question that the Bank of Canada failed to ask is: Does this "quick boost" to economic activity benefit the overall economy over the longer term? The answer to this question is a resounding "NO".
Ultimately the impact of the Bank of Canada's incredibly low interest rate policy is to devalue the Canadian dollar to near worthless value. That is the real reason why house prices exceed $1,000,000, grocery prices are skyrocketing, etc. Unfortunately the real inflation rate exceeds the official "CPI" by a factor of 2 or more times.
Re: Negative Interest Rate - Nargis - 02-10-2016
a negative interest rate didnt sound too good either way.....
the economy needs a boost but how?
Re: Negative Interest Rate - renegade - 02-10-2016
Bank of Canada and Federal Govt. should emphasis on re industrialization of Canada.
Offer lower interest rate on Capital & working Capital. Entrepreneur should have easy access to capital at prime rate. Banks are conservative sitting on pile of money.
It is insane, institution like BDC and Commercial bank charging very high interest rate.
All monetary theories created in past will fail in current time, as demand theory need to be reworked under global economy and internet era.
Re: Negative Interest Rate - Nargis - 02-11-2016
http://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/new-mortgage-rule-might-temper-hot-markets-but-not-for-long/ar-BBpnv1l?li=AAgh0dA
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Worst still ahead for mining industry after losing $1.4 trillion[/size][size=1.8rem]Beginning next week, many Canadians hoping to buy an abode will need to put more cash down before they can call it home. The extra cost might keep some would-be homeowners from mortgages they can't really afford, but it's unlikely to leave any lasting impressions on the country's most "overheated" real estate markets.
The federal government said in December that the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation will require a 10 per cent down payment on any portion of a mortgage it insures above $500,000 and up to $999,000. That's double the five per cent down the Crown corporation currently asks to insure mortgages worth more than 80 per cent of a home's value.
"We want to make sure we create an environment that protects the people buying homes so they have sufficient equity in their home," said Finance Bill Morneau at the time, also noting that "elevated" house prices were the driving force behind the move.
The change will "likely impact a broad spectrum of buyers," though it will surely be the highest hurdle for those who don't already have a good bit of equity from one home already.
"The majority of the impact is going to be on first-time homebuyers, particularly first-time buyers in the hotter markets," says Don Murray, senior analyst at Real Estate Investment Network, an organization that tracks Canadian housing trends.
"It could certainly prevent them from getting into a market that is overheated."
That could, the theory goes, ease the intense demand for starter properties such as single-family detached homes in places like Toronto and Vancouver — one of just several factors keeping average house prices in those cities so astonishingly high — and perhaps help those markets cool off a bit.
Good politics, bad policy?
It could also help save some people from themselves, encouraging sober second thought about getting locked into mortgages that would stretch their finances dangerously thin.
There's plenty of evidence that many Canadians have taken on alarming debt loads to finance their dream of home ownership, leaving them vulnerable to ruin if the markets start to deflate.
Young Canadians and their families would face the brunt of the impact. A report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, for example, found that about 10 per cent of homeowners under 40 would be bankrupted if housing prices dropped 20 per cent.
The C.D. Howe Institute similarly calculated that about half a million first-time homeowners, mainly young people with lower-than-average incomes, could be left ruined if the historically low interest rates that have fuelled drastic jumps in house prices went up, or they faced a personal financial crisis.
Canadians who have built equity in their homes throughout the real estate boom of the last 15 years or so, though, would be on more stable ground.
The underlying problem is that it's far from clear if the new mortgage rule — just the latest in a string of government-led measures to shield the economy from the high household debt loads Canadians are carrying around — will make a mark where one is most needed.
"I would say, generally speaking, there is some good politics in this but not much good policy," says Jon Sowerby, a licensed mortgage broker with Toronto-based TvH Financial.
"It's made to look like Mr. Morneau is on top of things, but the reality is that it's not going to have a massive impact on the market."
Drop in the bucket
The Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals agrees. The organization revealed last year that first-time homebuyers put down an average of about 21 per cent of their home's purchase price, a number that has not deviated much since real estate prices began their relentless climb in the late 1990s.
The analysis is based on data gathered from an annual survey of 800 Canadians who just bought a new home.
The same report estimates that of the 120,000 to 125,000 sales of homes that involve a mortgage of $500,000 or more each year in Canada, around 10,000, or 2 per cent, would involve down payments that had to be increased under the new rule.
It concludes that the change will have negligible resonance in the Canadian mortgages market.
That's not to say that first-time buyers haven't been looking ahead to the deadline, hoping to get in before a down payment lightens the coffer that much more.
The minds of homebuyers
Michael Elmenhoff is a realtor who does a lot of work in the east end of Toronto, a formerly blue-collar area of the city where the average starter home in a "cool neighbourhood" sells for about $650,000.
He says he saw about a 50-per-cent traffic increase in the first few weeks of this year compared to 2015, a time that is generally considered a slow period for buying before the spring markets picks up.
For example, Elmenhoff listed a rowhouse with three bedrooms, two baths and no parking on the boundary of the trendy Leaside neighbourhood for $499,999 dollars in early January. The property attracted about 150 prospective buyers and 13 offers before selling for $649,000.
The interest was almost exclusively from first-time homebuyers, Elmenhoff says. "That kind of traffic is unheard of, really."
He expects to see a slowdown come Monday.
"With the market seeming to be at precariously high price points, the new mortgage rule could help ease the situation," he says, adding that "anything to temper the speculation and the leveraging" is welcome.
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Re: Negative Interest Rate - ketchim - 02-11-2016
Closing the Stable door AFTER the Horse Bolt !
typical *** sigh ***