Publications

• June 19, 2024

  What you pay for at the pump

  

  Kun Mo

  Several factors help set gasoline prices: the costs of crude oil, refining, transporting, retailing and marketing gas, as well as taxes.

  Content Type(s): Publications, The Economy, Plain and Simple Research Topic(s): Exchange rates, Inflation and prices, Market structure and pricing
• May 24, 2024

  Quarterly Financial Report - First Quarter 2024

  Quarterly Financial Report - First Quarter 2024 - For the period ended March 31, 2024

  Content Type(s): Publications, Quarterly Financial Report
• May 9, 2024

  Financial System Survey highlights—2024

  This article presents the key results from the 2024 Bank of Canada Financial System Survey, conducted between February 20 and March 8. The survey included a special section on potential risks arising from different hypothetical interest-rate paths.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Financial System Survey
• May 9, 2024

  Financial Stability Report—2024

  

  Tiff Macklem, Carolyn Rogers, Toni Gravelle, Sharon Kozicki, Rhys R. Mendes, Nicolas Vincent

  Canada’s financial system remains resilient. Over the past year, households, businesses, banks and non-bank financial institutions have continued to proactively adjust to higher interest rates. But this adjustment is not yet over and continues to present risks to financial stability. Key risks include those related to debt serviceability and asset valuations.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Financial Stability Report
• May 2, 2024

  Annual Report 2023

  

  The Annual Report outlines the Bank’s activities and achievements in 2023. It includes the financial statements and a message from Governor Tiff Macklem.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Annual Report
• May 2, 2024

  Bank of Canada Disclosure of Climate-Related Risks 2023

  This report lays out elements of the Bank’s strategy related to climate change and details how the issue will be managed holistically across the organization, following the recommendations of the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Disclosure of Climate-Related Risks
• April 24, 2024

  Summary of Governing Council deliberations: Fixed announcement date of April 10, 2024

  This is an account of the deliberations of the Bank of Canada’s Governing Council leading to the monetary policy decision on April 10, 2024.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Summary of deliberations
• April 22, 2024

  Market Participants Survey—First Quarter of 2024

  The Market Participants Survey results are based on questionnaire responses from about 30 financial market participants.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Market Participants Survey
• April 10, 2024

  Monetary Policy Report – April 2024

  

  Monetary policy is working to reduce inflationary pressures and inflation is coming down, although it will take more time to see if this progress proves durable. The Bank projects that inflation will stay around 3% into the second quarter of 2024, ease below 2.5% in the second half of the year and return to target in 2025.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Monetary Policy Report
• April 1, 2024

  Business Outlook Survey—First Quarter of 2024

  Business sentiment and sales growth expectations have stopped falling, according to firms responding to the Business Outlook Survey and the Business Leaders’ Pulse. But demand remains subdued, which is allowing price pressures and the labour market to ease. As a result, fewer firms than in the previous survey are planning unusually large or frequent price increases over the next 12 months.

  Content Type(s): Publications, Business Outlook Survey