Weaker loonie may not deter Bank of Canada diverging from the Fed | Reuters

The Bank of Canada would be willing to cut interest rates three times ahead of the Federal Reserve’s first move before a declining currency threatens to endanger the inflation outlook, the median estimate of seven analysts in a straw poll showed.
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Loonie rises to highest point in 2 years on vaccine optimism, oil prices | CBC News

The Canadian dollar hit its highest point in more than two years on Thursday as the U.K. announced it had approved a coronavirus vaccine for emergency use and oil prices were buoyed by an apparent deal among OPEC nations to extend their current production cuts past January.
— Read on www.cbc.ca/news/business/loonie-oil-opec-markets-1.5826605