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Presents pointers for small hospitals to land high ratings as they tap capital markets. Criteria for investment grade rating; Common assumptions on small hospitals. INSET: Making the grade.

Reveals that the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce raised its five-year mortgage rate by one-quarter of a point in early March 1999. Second increase since December 1998; What analysts attribute this move to; Mortgage fluctuations since April 1998.

Discusses the expected tax cut by the Canadian government in 1999. How economic growth will be pushed down in 1999; Expected cut in key lending rate by the Bank of Canada; The risk of deflation compared to inflation; The annual inflation rate in Canada for November 1998.

Examines the economic climate of Canada in the summer of 1997. The decision of Gordon Thiessen, governor of the Bank of Canada, to raise the key lending rate by a quarter of a percentage point; The decline of the dollar; The effect of the rate hike.