News

• May 31, 2011

  Bank of Canada maintains overnight rate target at 1 per cent

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

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

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• May 19, 2011

  The Changing Face of Risk in the Global Financial System

  Remarks Timothy Lane Canadian Pension & Benefits Institute Vancouver, British Columbia

  I know that risk is ever-present in your work, as you fulfill your commitments to the beneficiaries and sponsors of your pension plans. Important risks surround the investment performance of those plans, as well as the value of pension liabilities.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
• May 19, 2011

  Bank of Canada Review - Spring 2011

  

  This special issue of the Review, “Lessons from the Financial Crisis,” examines the recent research on the role of liquidity in the financial system and on the public policy responses that aimed to restore stability to the financial system during the crisis and to foster economic recovery.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review
• May 16, 2011

  Canada in a Multi-Polar World

  Remarks Mark Carney Canadian Club of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario

  Governor Mark Carney discusses the forces that are transforming the global economic landscape and their implications for the Canadian economy.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
• May 16, 2011

  Canada Is Adjusting to Global Economic Transformation, Says Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  While Canada’s economy remains relatively well positioned, it is being buffeted by a significant transformation of the global economy, which is driven by a combination of secular trends and cyclical forces, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• May 6, 2011

  Monetary Policy and Resource Mobility

  Presentation Mark Carney Bank of Finland’s 200th Anniversary Conference Helsinki , Finland

  Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada, comments on “Monetary Policy and Resource Mobility,” a paper by Carl E. Walsh

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Presentations