The reading right now

As of January 2023, Real consumer spending for Canada stood at -1.2%. That is down 4.4 percentage points from the prior year. Over the trailing five years, the series has averaged 0.09%, ranging from a low of -7.27% in January 2020 to a high of 4.53% in January 2021. The current reading sits 2 percentage points below its trailing ten-year mean of 0.78%.

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