Press Releases

• November 27, 2001

  Bank of Canada lowers key policy interest rate by 1/2 percentage point to 2 1/4 per cent

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today announced that it is lowering its target for the overnight rate* by one-half of one percentage point to 2 1/4 per cent. The operating band for the overnight rate is correspondingly lowered, and the Bank Rate is now 2 1/2 per cent.

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• November 7, 2001

  Bank of Canada releases semi-annual Monetary Policy Report

  Media Relations

  The Bank of Canada today released its semi-annual Monetary Policy Report in which it discusses economic and financial trends in the context of Canada's inflation-control strategy.

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