{"id":300690,"date":"2011-11-22T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/uncategorized\/canadians-to-spend-an-average-of-640-on-holiday-gifts-says-rbc\/"},"modified":"2011-11-22T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T13:55:00","slug":"canadians-to-spend-an-average-of-640-on-holiday-gifts-says-rbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/news\/industry-news\/canadians-to-spend-an-average-of-640-on-holiday-gifts-says-rbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians to spend an average of $640 on holiday gifts, says RBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tResidents of Atlantic Canada plan to be the most generous in the country this holiday season, according to data compiled by the Royal Bank.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRBC says 90% of Atlantic Canadians plan on giving gifts, compared to 80% nationally.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe bank says residents of the region also intend to spend an average of $877 on gifts \u2014 well above the national average of $640.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn Manitoba and Saskatchewan, 88% of consumers say they plan to give gifts and spend an average of $686 &#8211; up almost $100 from last year.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn Alberta, 82% of consumers say they plan on giving gifts and expect to spend an average of $703 this season.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRBC says 79% of Ontario consumers expect to hand out gifts and spend $663 on average, roughly $50 more than last year.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn British Columbia, 76% of consumers tell the bank they plan to give gifts and to spend $674 on average, up $100 over last year.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe bank says Quebecers could be the most frugal, with gift-givers planning to spend an average of $461 on their holiday gift purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantic Canada residents the most generous, Quebeckers the most frugal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38954,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2312,2318],"tags":[3638],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300690"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=300690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}