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• February 15, 2013

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 15 February 2013

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
• February 13, 2013

  Publishing CORRA on the Family Day holiday

  The Bank’s Head Office will now be closed each year for the provincial Family Day holiday. The Canadian Overnight Repo Rate Average (CORRA) will not be published on that day.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• February 12, 2013

  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 morning. Tiff and I are pleased to be here with you today to discuss the January Monetary Policy Report, which the Bank recently published. While the global economic outlook is slightly weaker than the Bank had projected in October MPR, global tail risks have also diminished. The economic expansion in the United States is […]

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements
• February 12, 2013

  Statement by G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors

  Media Relations

  We, the G7 Ministers and Governors, reaffirm our longstanding commitment to market determined exchange rates and to consult closely in regard to actions in foreign exchange markets. We reaffirm that our fiscal and monetary policies have been and will remain oriented towards meeting our respective domestic objectives using domestic instruments, and that we will not […]

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• February 11, 2013

  Financial Stability in One Country?

  Remarks Timothy Lane Weatherhead Center for International Affairs - Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts

  Deputy Governor Tim Lane discusses the cross-border implications of financial instability and financial reform.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
• February 8, 2013

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 8 February 2013

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics

• Asking About Wages: Results from the Bank of Canada’s Wage Setting Survey of Canadian Companies

  Staff Discussion Paper 2013-1 David Amirault, Paul Fenton, Thérèse Laflèche

  The Bank of Canada conducted a Wage Setting Survey with a sample of 200 private sector firms from mid-October 2007 to May 2008. Results indicate that wage adjustments for the Canadian non-union private workforce are overwhelmingly time dependent, with a fixed duration of one year, and are clustered in the first four months of the year, suggesting that wage stickiness may not be constant over the year.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Labour markets, Monetary policy transmission JEL Code(s): E, E2, E24, J, J3, J33, M, M5, M52
• February 1, 2013

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 1 February 2013

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics