The Bank of Canada raises interest rates at its September 17, 2026 meeting.

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Six frontier AI models put this at 30% by 23 Sept 2026. Full reasoning from every model.

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30% — the median of 6 frontier models, resolving by 2026-09-23.

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Gemini (Google): 37% — The decision turns on whether stubborn core inflation overrides sluggish GDP growth enough to justify immediate tightening. The Bank of Canada Governing Council meets tomorrow, and markets only price in partial odds rather than a definitive hike. Central banks rarely hike during late-cycle slowdowns without overwhelming consensus, making a hawkish hold more typical. A decisive upside surprise in the final monthly core CPI trim would flip this to a hike, but a pause preserves optionality.

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Claude (Anthropic): 15% — Whether inflation data by Sept 17 forces BoC to reverse course from its recent easing bias. BoC has been in a cutting/holding cycle through 2025-26; a hike would be a sharp reversal requiring clear upside inflation surprise. Central banks rarely hike after sustained easing without several months of confirmed data trend, which context doesn't fully establish. Market pricing of 'potential tightening' suggests some probability but base rate for single-meeting hikes after dovish period remains low.

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GPT (OpenAI): 18% — It turns on whether September inflation and wages force the Governing Council to reverse its usual bias to wait for confirmation. The Bank must vote for an increase on September 17, leaving no time for new data beyond evidence already known on September 16. At single meetings, BoC hikes are uncommon absent a clear inflation reacceleration; market-priced tightening raises the odds but is not decisive. A sharply above-consensus CPI release or an explicit pre-meeting signal from Governor Macklem would materially raise this forecast.

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Grok (xAI): 42% — Whether tomorrow’s statement treats sticky core inflation and tight regional labour as enough to reverse the easing cycle. Governing Council must vote a 25 bp hike on 17 Sep; no further data drops before the 10 am ET announcement. Hikes occur at ~15 % of meetings even in tightening phases; this sits above that only because markets already price a non-zero chance. A last-minute leak of a hold or a surprise CPI miss would collapse the probability overnight.

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DeepSeek (DeepSeek): 22% — A hike one day out requires the BoC to ignore its own recent hold bias and act on data it hasn't yet fully seen. The BoC has held at 2.75% since mid-2025 and its July statement emphasized patience, so a September hike would break a well-established pause pattern. Canada CPI has cooled toward 2% and Q2 GDP was soft, which argues against tightening even with firm regional labor prints. A surprise upside CPI or wage print before September 17 would be the one development that could flip the decision toward a hike.

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Qwen (Alibaba): 38% — Turns on whether the BoC Governing Council judges inflation persistence strong enough to break its easing bias just one day from now. The BoC has not hiked since July 2023 and has been on hold or cutting since; reversing to tightening requires a sharp data shock or explicit forward guidance, neither of… OIS pricing can shift rapidly in the final days before a decision, but markets pricing 'potential tightening' is not the same as pricing it as the modal outcome; the… Base rate for a surprise hike after an extended easing/hold cycle is low (~10-15%), but persistent inflation and strong labor data cited in the context push this above…

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