Posts

• 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 Research Topic(s): Financial markets, Monetary policy implementation JEL Code(s): E, E5, E58, G, G1, G14
• November 25, 2010

  Research staff

  Profiles of the Bank’s research staff, featuring their publications, education and research fields.