November 7, 2013 $5 and $10 Bank Note Issue Remarks Tiff Macklem Vancouver Train Station Vancouver, British Columbia Senior Deputy Governor Tiff Macklem announces the entry into circulation of the new $5 and $10 polymer bank notes. Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Remarks Topic(s): Bank notes
October 31, 2013 Banking and Financial Statistics - October 2013 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Banking and Financial Statistics
October 23, 2013 Bank of Canada maintains overnight rate target at 1 per cent Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 1 1/4 per cent and the deposit rate is 3/4 per cent. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
October 11, 2013 Senior Loan Officer Survey - Third-Quarter 2013 The survey, conducted between 9 and 13 September, pointed to continued easing in overall business-lending conditions during the third quarter of 2013. Content Type(s): Publications, Senior Loan Officer Survey
May 1, 2001 Release of the Monetary Policy Report Opening statement David Dodge This morning, we released our spring 2001 Monetary Policy Report. In the six months since the November 2000 Report, the pace of economic expansion in Canada has slackened, primarily because the economic slowdown in the United States has been more pronounced than anticipated. The extent of the easing in economic activity in Canada is the […] Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements
November 9, 2000 Release of the Monetary Policy Report Opening statement Gordon Thiessen This morning we released our latest Monetary Policy Report. In the six months since the May Report, our economy has outperformed expectations, spurred by strong domestic and foreign demand for Canadian products. We now expect that growth will average 5 per cent in 2000 and 3 to 4 per cent in 2001. Despite this stronger-than-anticipated […] Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements
October 4, 2013 Weekly Financial Statistics - 4 October 2013 Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics
The Common Component of CPI: An Alternative Measure of Underlying Inflation for Canada Staff Working Paper 2013-35 Mikael Khan, Louis Morel, Patrick Sabourin In this paper, the authors propose a measure of underlying inflation for Canada obtained from estimating a monthly factor model on individual components of the CPI. This measure, labelled the common component of CPI, has intuitive appeal and a number of interesting features. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Business fluctuations and cycles, Econometric and statistical methods, Inflation and prices, Monetary policy framework JEL Code(s): C, C1, E, E3, E31, E32, E5, E52, E58
November 17, 1998 Opening Statement before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance Opening statement Gordon Thiessen House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance Mr. Chairman, my colleagues and I welcome these appearances before your committee following each edition of the Bank of Canada’s Monetary Policy Report. As you know, we published our latest report yesterday. It touches on a wide range of economic and monetary issues and provides an opportunity for us to account for our policy actions […] Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements
October 2, 2013 Debt Management Strategy Consultations - 2014-15 The Department of Finance and the Bank of Canada are seeking views of government securities distributors, institutional investors, and other interested parties on issues related to the design and operation of the Government of Canada’s domestic debt program for 2014-15 and beyond. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices