It has been a difficult year for capital markets professionals. The turmoil has deteriorated into a full-blown financial crisis. Most financial markets have experienced historic falls in prices, and some are strained to the point of closing.
While measures taken to address the global financial crisis will be successful, policy-makers need to improve their ability to detect the next crisis before it occurs, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said today.
In accordance with the schedule of term purchase and resale agreement (PRA) auctions announced on 1 December, the Bank of Canada announced today that it will enter into a 28-day term PRA transaction as follows:
The Bank of Canada announced today it will sell $0.50 billion of its holdings of treasury bills. This transaction will partially offset the temporary increase in assets associated with the outstanding term liquidity facilities. Details of the transaction are as follows:
In accordance with the schedule of term purchase and resale agreement (PRA) auctions for private sector money market instruments announced on 28 November, the Bank of Canada announced today that it will enter into a 21-day term PRA transaction for private sector money market instruments as follows: