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    <label>Business sentiment fell sharply throughout the fourth quarter of 2023</label>
    <description><![CDATA[Excluding normal seasonal patterns, how would you rate current business conditions for your firm? (3-month moving average, double-weighted balance of opinion*)

* Percentage of firms reporting good or very good business conditions minus the percentage reporting poor or very poor business conditions. Responses of very good business conditions and very poor business conditions are given twice the weight of responses of good business conditions and poor business conditions. The range of potential outcomes of this double-weighted balance of opinion is -200% to 200%.

Business Leaders’ Pulse
Last observation: December 31, 2023]]></description>
    <link>https://www.bankofcanada.ca/?p=236467</link>
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<series id="BOS_2023Q4_C1_S1">
<label>Balance of opinion</label>
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<o d="2022-06-01"><v s="BOS_2023Q4_C1_S1">60</v></o>
<o d="2022-07-01"><v s="BOS_2023Q4_C1_S1">54</v></o>
<o d="2022-08-01"><v s="BOS_2023Q4_C1_S1">52</v></o>
<o d="2022-09-01"><v s="BOS_2023Q4_C1_S1">54</v></o>
<o d="2022-10-01"><v s="BOS_2023Q4_C1_S1">39</v></o>
<o d="2022-11-01"><v s="BOS_2023Q4_C1_S1">34</v></o>
<o d="2022-12-01"><v s="BOS_2023Q4_C1_S1">36</v></o>
<o d="2023-01-01"><v s="BOS_2023Q4_C1_S1">38</v></o>
<o d="2023-02-01"><v s="BOS_2023Q4_C1_S1">33</v></o>
<o d="2023-03-01"><v s="BOS_2023Q4_C1_S1">34</v></o>
<o d="2023-04-01"><v s="BOS_2023Q4_C1_S1">32</v></o>
<o d="2023-05-01"><v s="BOS_2023Q4_C1_S1">29</v></o>
<o d="2023-06-01"><v s="BOS_2023Q4_C1_S1">27</v></o>
<o d="2023-07-01"><v s="BOS_2023Q4_C1_S1">26</v></o>
<o d="2023-08-01"><v s="BOS_2023Q4_C1_S1">25</v></o>
<o d="2023-09-01"><v s="BOS_2023Q4_C1_S1">22</v></o>
<o d="2023-10-01"><v s="BOS_2023Q4_C1_S1">18</v></o>
<o d="2023-11-01"><v s="BOS_2023Q4_C1_S1">11</v></o>
<o d="2023-12-01"><v s="BOS_2023Q4_C1_S1">9</v></o>
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