Canadian investors increased their exposure to foreign securities by $16.4 billion in June, mainly in US shares. Meanwhile, foreign acquisitions of Canadian securities slowed to $5.2 billion in June, down from significant investments in the previous two months.
In July, the preliminary number of international arrivals to Canada by air and automobile increased 6.5% from July 2023.
In April, the business closure rate edged down 0.1 percentage points to 4.5%, after holding steady at 4.6% over the previous three months. The opening rate was 4.6% in April, unchanged from the previous two months. In April, both the opening and the closure rates were 0.1 percentage points below their respective 2015-to-2019 historical averages.
The latest data from the Canadian Survey on Business Conditions indicate that, in the second quarter of 2024, about one in seven (14.1%) businesses across Canada were impacted to some degree by natural disasters or weather-related emergencies in the 12 months prior to the survey.
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