Canada's trade surplus widened for sixth straight month, providing more evidence that the economy built up strength before the Omicron surge
financialpost.com
The Bank of Canada will take the data as another indication of the strength of the economy as it tries to sort out when to begin lifting interest rates. Royal Bank of Canada deputy chief economist Dawn Desjardins suspects the economy has built up enough momentum in the last half of 2021 to help it through any impacts imposed by the highly transmissible Omicron variant.