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Are Banks Milking Variable-rate Holders?
Prime – 1.00% is a primo mortgage rate. No question about it. Yet, there are people complaining that it’s not the “prime minus one” of old. Prior to January 2015, critics point out, prime rate was 200 basis points (bps) above the Bank of Canada’s key lending rate. Now, banks have pushed this margin to 220 bps. The fatter this...