A General Approach to Recovering Market Expectations from Futures Prices with an Application to Crude Oil Staff working paper 2016-18 Christiane Baumeister, Lutz Kilian Futures markets are a potentially valuable source of information about price expectations. Exploiting this information has proved difficult in practice, because time-varying risk premia often render the futures price a poor measure of the market expectation of the price of the underlying asset. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers JEL Code(s): C, C5, C53, D, D8, D84, G, G1, G14, Q, Q4, Q43 Research Theme(s): Financial markets and funds management, Market functioning, Models and tools, Econometric, statistical and computational methods
September 19, 2025 Bank of Canada updates terms and conditions governing term repo operations In March 2025, the Bank restarted regular term repo operations as part of its return to normal balance sheet management. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices Source(s): Term repo operations
May 20, 2021 Financial System Review Summary—2021 Tiff Macklem, Timothy Lane, Lawrence L. Schembri, Paul Beaudry, Toni Gravelle The Canadian financial system proved resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic—thanks to strong risk management and unprecedented fiscal and monetary policy support. Content Type(s): Publications, Financial Stability Report
September 29, 1998 Bank Rate Lowered by ¼ Percentage Point to 5¾ Per Cent Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario The Bank of Canada today lowered its Bank Rate by ¼ of one percentage point to 5¾ per cent. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
November 12, 2009 Deputy Governor David Longworth to Retire from the Bank of Canada Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario The Bank of Canada announced today that Deputy Governor David Longworth will retire on 31 March 2010. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
April 15, 2005 Governor Dodge Discusses How Canada is Adjusting to Global Economic Forces Media Relations New York, New York Bank of Canada Governor David Dodge said today that the Canadian economy is adjusting to powerful global forces and explained what the central bank is doing to help the adjustment process. Content Type(s): Press, Press releases
2022 Methods-of-Payment Survey Report: Cash Use Over 13 Years Staff discussion paper 2024-1 Christopher Henry, Doina Rusu, Matthew Shimoda We present results from the 2022 Methods-of-Payment Survey, including updated payment shares based on a three-day shopping diary. We also assess various factors associated with long-term trends in cash use. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff discussion papers JEL Code(s): D, D8, D83, E, E4, E41 Research Theme(s): Money and payments, Cash and bank notes, Retail payments