OTTAWA - Statistics Canada will reveal this morning how ongoing tariffs and the start of the Iran war affected the economy in the first quarter of the year.
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada will reveal this morning how ongoing tariffs and the start of the Iran war affected the economy in the first quarter of the year.
The agency’s initial estimates suggest the economy rebounded somewhat after a mild contraction in the final quarter of 2025.
Revised GDP numbers will give a sense of Iran War's impact on the economy
First-quarter GDP growth revised down to 1.6% rate
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The Iran war is starting to show up in the U.S. economy in ways both obvious and not so much.
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America’s economy feels like it’s in trouble.
Middle East, emerging economies and UK particularly hit, as growth projected to fall and inflation to rise
