April 24, 2024 Release of the Bank of Canada’s summary of deliberations On Wednesday, April 24, 2024, the Bank of Canada will publish a summary of the deliberations that took place ahead of its interest rate decision on April 10, 2024. Content Type(s): Press, Media advisories
April 24, 2024 Publication: Summary of Deliberations 13:30 (ET)Bank of Canada Content Type(s): Upcoming events
April 22, 2024 Release: Market Participants Survey 10:30 (ET)The Market Participants Survey is conducted quarterly. Bank of Canada staff reach out to a diverse set of participants in financial markets to gather their views on key macroeconomic and financial variables as well as on monetary policy. Content Type(s): Upcoming events
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 19, 2024 Media roundtable with Governor Macklem As is customary, Tiff Macklem, Governor of the Bank of Canada, will today hold a virtual roundtable with journalists from the sidelines of the IMF-World Bank Spring meetings in Washington, DC. Content Type(s): Press, Media advisories
April 17, 2024 Introduction of one-month treasury bill In line with the announcement in the federal 2024 Budget, the Government of Canada will be introducing a temporary one-month treasury bill. Content Type(s): Press, Market notices
April 17, 2024 Prescribed supervisory information This supervisory policy provides an explanation of the prescribed supervisory information provisions and sets out the Bank of Canada’s expectations for payments service providers’ compliance with non-disclosure requirements related to prescribed supervisory information under subsection 64(1) of the Retail Payment Activities Act and sections 37 to 38 of the Retail Payment Activities Regulations.
U.S. Macroeconomic News and Low-Frequency Changes in Small Open Economies’ Bond Yields Staff Working Paper 2024-12 Bingxin Ann Xing, Bruno Feunou, Morvan Nongni-Donfack, Rodrigo Sekkel Using two complementary approaches, we investigate the importance of U.S. macroeconomic news in driving low-frequency fluctuations in the term structure of interest rates in Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom. We find that U.S. macroeconomic news is particularly important to explain changes in the expectation components of the nominal, real and break-even inflation rates of small open economies. Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Central bank research, Econometric and statistical methods JEL Code(s): E, E4, E43, E44, E47, G, G1, G14