April 16, 2008 Results of the 16 April 2008 Sale of Treasury Bills for Balance Sheet Management Purposes Results of the 16 April 2008 Sale of Treasury Bills. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
April 15, 2008 Bank of Canada to Sell Treasury Bills for Balance Sheet Management Purposes The Bank of Canada announced today it will sell $2 billion of its holdings of treasury bills. This transaction will offset the temporary increase in assets associated with the term purchase and resale transactions announced today. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
April 15, 2008 Bank of Canada Announces Term PRA Transaction As part of its continuing provision of liquidity in support of the efficient functioning of financial markets, the Bank of Canada announced today that it will enter into a 28-day term purchase and resale agreement (PRA) as follows: Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
April 14, 2008 Business Outlook Survey - Spring 2008 In the spring survey, a number of indicators eased from their level in the winter survey. While the weaker U.S. economic situation is weighing more heavily on the outlook, firms are not expecting a marked change in the pace of business activity. Content Type(s): Publications, Business Outlook Survey
April 10, 2008 Credit Markets, Financial Stability, and Monetary Policy Remarks David Longworth Global Investment Conference Lake Louise, Alberta Today, I'd like to discuss some of the crucial issues that we have been dealing with during this period. I'll begin with a brief overview of some key events that have led to the turbulence that continues to upset financial markets and that greatly contributed to the remarkably wide credit spreads that we now witness. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
Credit, Asset Prices, and Financial Stress in Canada Staff Working Paper 2008-10 Miroslav Misina, Greg Tkacz Historical narratives typically associate financial crises with credit expansions and asset price misalignments. The question is whether some combination of measures of credit and asset prices can be used to predict these events. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Credit and credit aggregates, Financial stability JEL Code(s): E, E5, G, G1, G10
A Model of Housing Boom and Bust in a Small Open Economy Staff Working Paper 2008-9 Hajime Tomura This paper considers a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model for a small open economy and finds that an improvement in the terms of trade causes a housing boom-bust cycle if the duration of the improvement is uncertain. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Credit and credit aggregates JEL Code(s): E, E4, E44, F, F4, F41
April 3, 2008 Results of the 3 April 2008 Term PRA Transaction The results of today's term PRA operations are as follows: Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
April 2, 2008 Trends and Challenges in the Global Economy and What They Mean for Canada and Ontario Remarks Paul Jenkins London Chamber of Commerce London, Ontario As is the case for so many cities and regions in Canada, London's economy and that of southwestern Ontario are directly affected by changes in the global economy. And, as with so many things in life, the better we understand the forces of change, the better equipped we are to deal with them. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks
March 31, 2008 Eligibility Criteria and Conditions for Accepting Asset-Backed Commercial Paper (ABCP) as Collateral for the Bank of Canada's Standing Liquidity Facility (SLF) On 5 March 2008, the Bank released for comment its proposed eligibility criteria for accepting ABCP and noted that two broad policy objectives guided the Bank's assessment. First, the eligibility criteria should mitigate any risks to the Bank that might be associated with accepting ABCP securities as collateral for the SLF. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices