Thursday, March 11, 2010
Released at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time
Canadian international merchandise trade, January 2010
Canada's merchandise exports grew 0.5% in January, a slower pace than in the previous four months, while imports declined 1.7%. As a result, Canada posted a trade surplus with the world of $799 million in January compared with a surplus of $75 million in December.
Industrial capacity utilization rates, fourth quarter 2009
Canadian industries operated at 70.9% of their production capacity in the fourth quarter, up from 68.7% in the third quarter. Following a marginal gain of 0.2 percentage points in the third quarter, the gain in the fourth quarter was the first sizeable increase in overall capacity use since the first quarter of 2007.
New Housing Price Index, January 2010
Quarterly Trucking Survey, third quarter 2009
Export and import price indexes, January 2010
Chain Fisher real export and import values, January 2010