OTTAWA, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The Bank of Canada will cut
interest rates by a half a percentage point to 4% by December,
according to a median of market participants surveyed by the
central bank, with interest rates forecast to continue to fall
next year.
The Bank of Canada released for the first time a survey of
market participants on Monday, with a median forecasting real
gross domestic product will fall 0.4% this year from the
previous year, and will expand 2% next year.
(Reporting by Steve Scherer and Ismail Shakil)
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