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• October 10, 2015

  Integrating Financial Stability into Monetary Policy

  Remarks Stephen S. Poloz Institute of International Finance Lima, Peru

  Governor Poloz speaks about how the Bank’s risk-management approach contributes to integrating financial stability concerns into monetary policy.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
• October 9, 2015

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 9 October 2015

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
• October 9, 2015

  Bank of Canada Announces Details of its Term Repo Operation

  The Bank of Canada announced today that it will conduct a term repo operation.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• October 9, 2015

  Senior Loan Officer Survey - Third-Quarter 2015

  The survey results suggest that business-lending conditions were largely unchanged during the third quarter of 2015.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Senior Loan Officer Survey
• October 9, 2015

  Business Outlook Survey - Autumn 2015

  The autumn Business Outlook Survey shows that firms’ expectations continue to diverge as they gradually adjust to an environment of weaker commodity prices and a lower Canadian dollar. The overall sales and investment outlook improved, owing in part to continued support from U.S. demand. However, business sentiment remains weak for firms directly and indirectly tied to the resource sector.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Business Outlook Survey
• October 7, 2015

  CFIF Meeting (October 7, 2015)

  Content Type(s): Meetings Source(s): Canadian Fixed-Income Forum
• October 2, 2015

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 2 October 2015

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

• The Optimal Level of the Inflation Target: A Selective Review of the Literature and Outstanding Issues

  Staff Discussion Paper 2015-8 Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Rhys R. Mendes

  Bank of Canada research done prior to the most recent renewal of the inflation-control agreement in 2011 concluded that the benefits associated with a target below 2 per cent were insufficient to justify the increased risk of being constrained by the zero lower bound (ZLB) on nominal interest rates.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Inflation targets, Inflation: costs and benefits, Monetary policy framework JEL Code(s): E, E5, E52, E58
• September 30, 2015

  Completion of Public Consultations: Bank of Canada's Framework for Financial Market Operations and its Emergency Lending Assistance Policies

  The Bank announces changes to its framework for financial market operations and emergency lending assistance policies and provides summaries of its public consultations.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• September 30, 2015

  Preliminary Quarterly Term Repo Schedule

  As announced today, the Bank of Canada is introducing 1- and 3-month Term Repo operations that will be built up to a target portfolio size of $7 billion to $10 billion over a 6 month implementation period. Below is the preliminary schedule and amounts for the October to December quarter.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices