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• July 1, 2017

  Bank of Canada Museum

  

  Expand your understanding of spending and saving, discover your place in the economy and explore a world-class currency collection. Access our free school programs and lesson plans, and read our blog.
• June 30, 2017

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 30 June 2017

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
• June 30, 2017

  Research Update - June 2017

  This monthly newsletter features the latest research publications by Bank of Canada economists including external publications and working papers published on the Bank of Canada’s website.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Research newsletters
• June 30, 2017

  Business Outlook Survey - Summer 2017

  Responses to the summer Business Outlook Survey suggest that business activity is continuing to gain momentum, buoyed by indications that domestic demand will improve further. Positive business prospects are increasingly widespread across regions and sectors.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Business Outlook Survey
• June 30, 2017

  Senior Loan Officer Survey - Second Quarter of 2017

  Survey results for 2017Q2 suggest that overall business-lending conditions were essentially unchanged for the fourth consecutive quarter.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Senior Loan Officer Survey
• June 29, 2017

  Banking and Financial Statistics - June 2017

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Banking and Financial Statistics
• June 28, 2017

  Markets Calling: Intelligence Gathering at the Bank of Canada

  Remarks Lynn Patterson CFA Society Calgary Calgary, Alberta

  Deputy Governor Lynn Patterson discusses how the Bank gathers financial market intelligence and what it is learning.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks Research Topic(s): Asset pricing, Credit and credit aggregates, Financial markets, Financial system regulation and policies, Monetary and financial indicators, Recent economic and financial developments
• June 27, 2017

  FSB issues a report on the financial stability implications from FinTech

  This FSB press release announces that a working group chaired by Bank of Canada Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn A. Wilkins published a report analyzing the potential financial stability implications of fintech.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases Research Topic(s): Digital currencies and fintech
• June 27, 2017

  CFIF Meeting (June 27, 2017)

  Content Type(s): Meetings Source(s): Canadian Fixed-Income Forum

• Understanding Monetary Policy and its Effects: Evidence from Canadian Firms Using the Business Outlook Survey

  Staff Working Paper 2017-24 Matthieu Verstraete, Lena Suchanek

  This paper shows (i) that business sentiment, as captured by survey data, matters for monetary policy decisions in Canada, and (ii) how business perspectives are affected by monetary policy shocks. Measures of business sentiment (soft data) are shown to have systematic explanatory power for monetary policy decisions over and above typical Taylor rule variables.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Research Topic(s): Firm dynamics, Interest rates, Monetary policy transmission JEL Code(s): D, D2, D22, E, E4, E44, E5, E52