🔴 The Canadian dollar weakened past 1.33 per USD, retreating from the five-month high of 1.32 touched on December 26th amid a rebound for the greenback, sluggish domestic data, and muted foreign currency inflows. Canada’s manufacturing PMI contracted at the sharpest pace since the pandemic crash in the second quarter of 2020, limiting the room for the central bank to fight inflation with restrictive policy. Meanwhile, concerns of lower global oil demand eased the inflows of foreign exchange, stripping support for the Canadian currency. Investors now await labor market data on Friday for further guidance on future monetary policy decisions.