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Includes: GDP, CPI, Commodity and farm prices indexes, New housing prices, Construction union wage rates, Manufacturing shipments, orders, and inventories International trade, Interest rates and exchange rates, Business bankruptcies, Personal Disposable Income, Personal savings.

% of Canadian SMEs claim to do business with countries in the EU, % say they conduct trade with the U.S., % said they believe the U.S. is on the path to long-term decline that will result in its loss of status as an economic superpower, % said it will be at least five years before the U.S. emerges from recession, % believe Canada should share a common currency with the U.S.

Housing Starts ('000s), Productivity: Real GDP / worker

Also Company response to current level of dollar (Cut costs/efficiencies, Adjusting export pricing, Nothing/riding it out/absorb loss, Reconsider business model, Changing production systems, Currency hedging. [Canadian dollar / exchange rates, business confidence]