Loonie to depreciate even if NAFTA deal is reached

A quick NAFTA deal is an upside risk to our forecast for the loonie to remain near its current rate against the US dollar this year. But our forecasts for various commodity prices to decline and interest rate differentials to move against Canada implies that the loonie will nevertheless depreciate in 2019.

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