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    <label>Chart 1: Business sentiment is still low</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 positive sentiment minus the percentage reporting negative sentiment. 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%.

Source: Business Leaders’ Pulse]]></description>
    <link>https://www.bankofcanada.ca/?p=239538</link>
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<label>Balance of opinion (%)</label>
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<o d="2022-06-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">60</v></o>
<o d="2022-07-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">54</v></o>
<o d="2022-08-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">52</v></o>
<o d="2022-09-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">54</v></o>
<o d="2022-10-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">39</v></o>
<o d="2022-11-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">34</v></o>
<o d="2022-12-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">36</v></o>
<o d="2023-01-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">38</v></o>
<o d="2023-02-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">33</v></o>
<o d="2023-03-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">34</v></o>
<o d="2023-04-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">32</v></o>
<o d="2023-05-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">29</v></o>
<o d="2023-06-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">27</v></o>
<o d="2023-07-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">26</v></o>
<o d="2023-08-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">25</v></o>
<o d="2023-09-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">22</v></o>
<o d="2023-10-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">18</v></o>
<o d="2023-11-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">11</v></o>
<o d="2023-12-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">9</v></o>
<o d="2024-01-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">13</v></o>
<o d="2024-02-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">19</v></o>
<o d="2024-03-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">19</v></o>
<o d="2024-04-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">18</v></o>
<o d="2024-05-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">17</v></o>
<o d="2024-06-01"><v s="BOS_2024Q2_C1_S1">21</v></o>
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