December 9, 2010 The Countercyclical Bank Capital Buffer: Insights for Canada Financial System Review - December 2010 David Xiao Chen, Ian Christensen Content Type(s): Publications, Financial System Review articles
December 9, 2010 Central Counterparties and Systemic Risk Financial System Review - December 2010 Eric Tuer, Nicholas Labelle, Nikil Chande Content Type(s): Publications, Financial System Review articles
December 9, 2010 Contingent Capital and Bail-In Debt: Tools for Bank Resolution Financial System Review - December 2010 Chris D'Souza, Liane Orsi, Toni Gravelle, Walter Engert Content Type(s): Publications, Financial System Review articles
December 9, 2010 Financial System Review - December 2010 Although the global financial system continues to recover gradually from the unprecedented dislocations experienced in recent years, significant downside risks remain. Market concerns over acute fiscal strains in some euro-area countries have intensified sharply in recent weeks.FSR Highlights - December 2010 Content Type(s): Publications, Financial Stability Report
December 9, 2010 Results of the 9 December 2010 Term Repo Operation for Balance Sheet Management Purposes Today's results of the Term Repo Operation for Balance Sheet Management Purposes Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
December 8, 2010 Bank of Canada Announces Details of its Term Repo for Balance Sheet Management Purposes Operation Primary dealers are asked to submit their bids to the Bank of Canada between 09:15 and 09:30 (ET) on the day of the auction. The results of this operation will be announced on the Bank’s web site by 10:00 (ET). Winning bidders must notify the Bank of Canada of the securities that will be used in the operation by 11:00 (ET) on the day of the auction. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
December 8, 2010 Bank of Canada Announces Closure of Optical Security Material Division and Sale of Related Assets Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario The Bank of Canada announced today that it is closing its Optical Security Material (OSM) division and selling all of its related assets. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
December 7, 2010 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
November 30, 2010 Real Return Bonds - Index Ratio See the historical index ratios for Real Return Bonds.
Text Mining and the Information Content of Bank of Canada Communications Staff Working Paper 2010-31 Scott Hendry, Alison Madeley This paper uses Latent Semantic Analysis to extract information from Bank of Canada communication statements and investigates what type of information affects returns and volatility in short-term as well as long-term interest rate markets over the 2002-2008 period. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Financial markets, Monetary policy implementation JEL Code(s): E, E5, E58, G, G1, G14