Press Releases

• October 26, 2015

  Deputy Governor Agathe Côté to retire from the Bank of Canada

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada announced today that Deputy Governor Agathe Côté will retire at the end of January 2016.

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• October 21, 2015

  Bank of Canada maintains overnight rate target at 1/2 per cent

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1/2 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 3/4 per cent and the deposit rate is 1/4 per cent.

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• October 12, 2015

  Bank of Canada Focusing Research on Integrating Monetary Policy and Financial Stability, says Governor Poloz

  Media Relations Washington, D.C.

  The Bank of Canada is exploring the links between financial stability considerations and traditional central bank approaches to inflation targeting as part of its risk-management approach to achieving its monetary policy goals, Governor Stephen S. Poloz said today. As the Bank of Canada works toward renewing its inflation-targeting agreement with the federal government next year, […]

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• October 10, 2015

  Bank of Canada Working to Integrate Financial Stability into Monetary Policy, says Governor Poloz

  Media Relations Lima, Peru

  The Bank of Canada is taking a risk-management approach to integrating financial stability concerns into monetary policy, Governor Stephen S. Poloz said today. In a speech to the meeting of the Institute of International Finance in Lima, Peru, the Governor said financial stability issues add a new dimension of risk to the many uncertainties that […]

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