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• October 31, 2017

  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 are happy to be before you today to discuss the Bank’s Monetary Policy Report (MPR), which we published last week. When we were last here in April, we were celebrating the fact that we had upgraded our economic forecast following a long […]

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements
• October 31, 2017

  Research Update - October 2017

  This monthly newsletter features the latest research publications by Bank of Canada economists including external publications and working papers published on the Bank of Canada’s website.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Research newsletters
• October 30, 2017

  Government of Canada Canadian dollar deposits (formerly in the WFS)

  Weekly Wednesday data on the total government deposit balance held at the Bank of Canada and with other market auction participants.

  Content Type(s): Banking and financial statistics
• October 29, 2017

  Government of Canada direct securities and loans: Holdings of general public classified by remaining term to maturity (formerly G7)

  Month-end data on general public held unmatured direct securities (excluding retail instruments and perpetuals) and non-marketable securities by remaining term to maturity.

  Content Type(s): Banking and financial statistics
• October 29, 2017

  Government of Canada direct securities and loans: Classified by remaining term to maturity and type of asset (formerly G6)

  Month-end data on unmatured direct securities (excluding non-marketable securities) and non-marketable securities by the type of assets and by their remaining term to maturity.

  Content Type(s): Banking and financial statistics
• October 27, 2017

  Weekly Financial Statistics - 27 October 2017

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Weekly Financial Statistics

• Identification of Random Resource Shares in Collective Households Without Preference Similarity Restrictions

  Staff Working Paper 2017-45 Geoffrey R. Dunbar, Arthur Lewbel, Krishna Pendakur

  Resource shares, defined as the fraction of total household spending going to each person in a household, are important for assessing individual material well-being, inequality and poverty. They are difficult to identify because consumption is measured typically at the household level, and many goods are jointly consumed, so that individual-level consumption in multi-person households is not directly observed.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Domestic demand and components, Econometric and statistical methods JEL Code(s): C, C3, C31, D, D1, D11, D12, D13, I, I3, I32
• October 26, 2017

  Banking and Financial Statistics - October 2017

  Content Type(s): Publications, Historical: Banking and Financial Statistics
• October 25, 2017

  Monetary Policy Report Press Conference Opening Statement

  Opening statement Stephen S. Poloz, Carolyn A. Wilkins Ottawa, Ontario

  Governor Stephen S. Poloz discusses key issues involved in the Governing Council’s deliberations about the policy rate decision and the MPR.

  Content Type(s): Press, Speeches and appearances, Opening statements
• October 25, 2017

  Bank of Canada maintains overnight rate target at 1 per cent

  Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario

  The Bank of Canada today maintained 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