April 23, 2020 Bank of Canada announces asset manager for Provincial Bond Purchase Program The Bank of Canada announced today that BMO Global Asset Management was selected as the asset manager for its Provincial Bond Purchase Program (PBPP). Content Type(s): Press, Market notices Source(s): Provincial Bond Purchase Program
April 21, 2020 Bank of Canada Announces Further Enhancements to its Term Repo Operations Following the announcement of the Bank of Canada’s new market operations to improve market functioning to support its monetary policy actions, the Term Repo terms and conditions have been revised to include term repos up to 24 months. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices Source(s): Term repo operations
April 20, 2020 Operational details for upcoming secondary market purchases of Government of Canada securities (April 27-May 8) As announced on March 27, 2020, the Bank of Canada (the Bank) launched on April 1, 2020 a program to purchase Government of Canada securities in the secondary market. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices Source(s): Government of Canada Bond Purchase Program
A Simple Method for Extracting the Probability of Default from American Put Option Prices Staff Working Paper 2020-15 Bo Young Chang, Greg Orosi A put option is a financial contract that gives the holder the right to sell an asset at a specific price by (or at) a specific date. A put option can therefore provide its holder insurance against a large drop in the stock price. This makes the prices of put options an ideal source of information for a market-based measure of the probability of a firm’s default. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Asset pricing, Financial markets, Market structure and pricing JEL Code(s): G, G1, G13, G3, G33
April 20, 2020 Results of today’s Canada Mortgage Bond purchase operation Today the Bank of Canada purchased $ 321,000,000 of Canada Mortgage Bonds in the secondary market. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices Source(s): Canada Mortgage Bond Purchase Program
April 16, 2020 Opening Statement before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance Opening statement Stephen S. Poloz House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance Ottawa, Ontario Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and committee members. Senior Deputy Governor Wilkins and I welcome the opportunity to appear before you to discuss the Bank’s policy actions in response to the coronavirus pandemic, as well as our Monetary Policy Report (MPR), which we published yesterday. The Canadian economy is experiencing a significant and rapid contraction. The […] Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements Topic(s): Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Inflation and prices, Monetary policy, Monetary policy transmission, Recent economic and financial developments
April 16, 2020 Results of today’s Canada Mortgage Bond purchase operation Today the Bank of Canada purchased $ 240,000,000 of Canada Mortgage Bonds in the secondary market. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices Source(s): Canada Mortgage Bond Purchase Program
Learning, Equilibrium Trend, Cycle, and Spread in Bond Yields Staff Working Paper 2020-14 Guihai Zhao This equilibrium model explains the trend in long-term yields and business-cycle movements in short-term yields and yield spreads. The less-frequent inverted yield curves (and less-frequent recessions) after the 1990s are due to recent secular stagnation and procyclical inflation expectations. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Asset pricing, Financial markets, Interest rates JEL Code(s): E, E4, E43, G, G0, G00, G1, G12