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• August 11, 2005

  Bank of Canada releases 2006 schedule of dates for its policy interest rate announcements

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The announcement dates from September 2005 through December 2006

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• August 8, 2005

  Review of the Government of Canada Debt Distribution Framework

  Today, the findings of the review and Changes to the Government of Canada Debt Distribution Framework are being made public on the Bank's website. The changes will become effective in October 2005, following the update of the Terms of Participation and the Standard Terms for Government of Canada auctions.

  Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
• August 8, 2005

  Changes to the Government of Canada Debt Distribution Framework

  The purpose of the framework for distributing the government's debt securities is to raise stable, low-cost funding for the government and to support a well-functioning market for Government of Canada securities.
• July 28, 2005

  Bank of Canada Announces Appointment of Special Adviser

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  Mr. Little, who will join the Bank in September, is a recently retired journalist from the Globe and Mail, where he spent most of the past two decades writing about economics and public finance.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• July 14, 2005

  Release of the Monetary Policy Report Update

  Opening statement David Dodge

  Global and Canadian economic developments have been unfolding broadly as expected, and the Bank's outlook for output and inflation in Canada through to the end of 2006 is little changed from the scenario outlined in the April Report. Strong growth in final domestic demand in Canada continues to offset the drag from net exports.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements
• July 14, 2005

  Monetary Policy Report Update – July 2005

  The update on global and Canadian economic developments presented in this Report highlights three issues.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Monetary Policy Report
• July 12, 2005

  Bank of Canada keeps target for the overnight rate at 2 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 2 1/2 per cent. The operating band for the overnight rate is unchanged, and the Bank Rate remains at 2 3/4 per cent.

  Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
• July 4, 2005

  Business Outlook Survey - Summer 2005

  Businesses remain optimistic about the economic outlook. Indeed, the results of this survey are broadly similar to those of the spring 2005 survey.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Business Outlook Survey

• Bank Failures and Bank Fundamentals: A Comparative Analysis of Latin America and East Asia during the Nineties using Bank-Level Data

  Staff Working Paper 2005-19 Marco Arena

  The author develops the first comparative empirical study of bank failures during the nineties between East Asia and Latin America using bank-level data, in order to address the following two questions: (i) To what extent did individual bank conditions explain bank failures? (ii) Did mainly the weakest banks, in terms of their fundamentals, fail in the crisis countries?

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial institutions JEL Code(s): G, G2, N, N2
• June 28, 2005

  The International Monetary Order and the Canadian Economy

  Remarks David Dodge Canada-U.K. Chamber of Commerce London, United Kingdom

  As business people with ties to Canada and the United Kingdom, you are keenly interested in the economic prospects of both countries. When we look closely at our economies, it is striking how much they have in common in terms of policies and outlook.

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