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• April 30, 2010

  Bank of Canada announces Terms and Conditions for Term Repo Operations for Balance Sheet Management Purposes

  The Bank of Canada announced today its Terms and Conditions for Term Repo Operations for Balance Sheet management purposes.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• April 29, 2010

  Opening Statement before the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce

  Opening statement Mark Carney Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce Ottawa, Ontario

  Good morning, Mr. Chairman and committee members. I am pleased to appear before this committee today to discuss the Bank of Canada’s views on the economy and our monetary policy stance.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements
• April 27, 2010

  Opening Statement before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance

  Opening statement Mark Carney House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance Ottawa, Ontario

  Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and committee members. I am pleased to appear before this committee today to discuss the Bank of Canada’s views on the economy and our monetary policy stance.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements
• April 22, 2010

  Monetary Policy Report – April 2010

  

  Global economic growth has been somewhat stronger than projected, with momentum in emerging-market economies increasing noticeably.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Monetary Policy Report
• April 22, 2010

  Release of the Monetary Policy Report

  Opening statement Mark Carney Ottawa, Ontario

  Good Morning. I am pleased to be here with you today to discuss the April Monetary Policy Report, which the Bank published this morning.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements
• April 20, 2010

  Bank of Canada Announces Updated Substitution Schedule for Outstanding Bank of Canada Term PRA Operations

  In accordance with today's policy rate announcement, no further Term PRA operations are scheduled. The last operation was conducted on 12 April 2010.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• April 20, 2010

  Bank of Canada maintains overnight rate target at 1/4 per cent; removes conditional commitment

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1/4 per cent.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases

• Prospects for Global Current Account Rebalancing

  Staff Discussion Paper 2010-4 Kimberly Beaton, Carlos De Resende, René Lalonde, Stephen Snudden

  The authors use the Bank of Canada's version of the Global Economy Model, a multi-country, multi-sector dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model with an active banking system (the BoC-GEM-FIN), to study the evolution of global current account balances following the recent global financial crisis.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Balance of payments and components, Business fluctuations and cycles, International topics, Recent economic and financial developments JEL Code(s): E, E2, E21, F, F0, F01, F3, F32

• Le pouvoir de prévision des indices PMI

  Staff Discussion Paper 2010-3 Claudia Godbout, Jocelyn Jacob

  The forecast of world economic growth plays a key role in the conduct of Canadian monetary policy. In this context, the authors study the usefulness of the monthly Purchasing Managers’ Indexes (PMIs) in predicting short-term real GDP growth in the euro area, Japan, the United Kingdom, and China, as well as in the world economy.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, International topics JEL Code(s): E, E3, E37, F, F4, F47
• April 16, 2010

  Senior Loan Officer Survey - First-Quarter 2010

  The survey results point to an overall easing in business-lending conditions during the first quarter of 2010, following a stabilization of lending conditions in the last quarter of 2009. Both the price and non-price aspects of business lending eased during the first quarter.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Senior Loan Officer Survey