April 22, 2010 Release of the Monetary Policy Report Opening statement Mark Carney Ottawa, Ontario Good Morning. I am pleased to be here with you today to discuss the April Monetary Policy Report, which the Bank published this morning. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements
April 20, 2010 Bank of Canada Announces Updated Substitution Schedule for Outstanding Bank of Canada Term PRA Operations In accordance with today's policy rate announcement, no further Term PRA operations are scheduled. The last operation was conducted on 12 April 2010. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
April 20, 2010 Bank of Canada maintains overnight rate target at 1/4 per cent; removes conditional commitment Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1/4 per cent. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
Prospects for Global Current Account Rebalancing Staff Discussion Paper 2010-4 Kimberly Beaton, Carlos De Resende, René Lalonde, Stephen Snudden The authors use the Bank of Canada's version of the Global Economy Model, a multi-country, multi-sector dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model with an active banking system (the BoC-GEM-FIN), to study the evolution of global current account balances following the recent global financial crisis. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Balance of payments and components, Business fluctuations and cycles, International topics, Recent economic and financial developments JEL Code(s): E, E2, E21, F, F0, F01, F3, F32
Le pouvoir de prévision des indices PMI Staff Discussion Paper 2010-3 Claudia Godbout, Jocelyn Jacob The forecast of world economic growth plays a key role in the conduct of Canadian monetary policy. In this context, the authors study the usefulness of the monthly Purchasing Managers’ Indexes (PMIs) in predicting short-term real GDP growth in the euro area, Japan, the United Kingdom, and China, as well as in the world economy. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, International topics JEL Code(s): E, E3, E37, F, F4, F47
April 16, 2010 Senior Loan Officer Survey - First-Quarter 2010 The survey results point to an overall easing in business-lending conditions during the first quarter of 2010, following a stabilization of lending conditions in the last quarter of 2009. Both the price and non-price aspects of business lending eased during the first quarter. Content Type(s): Publications, Senior Loan Officer Survey
April 14, 2010 Currency The Bank of Canada is the country’s sole authority for issuing bank notes and is responsible for the design, production and distribution of Canada’s bank notes.
April 14, 2010 Monetary policy Learn about the objective of Canada’s monetary policy and the main instruments used to implement it: the inflation-control target and the flexible exchange rate. See also how monetary policy works, how decisions are made and read related backgrounders.
April 14, 2010 Core functions Learn all about the main areas of responsibility of the Bank of Canada.
April 14, 2010 Our history Learn the history of the Bank, and read short biographies of past governors.