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

The Bank of Canada today held its target for the overnight rate at 5%, with the Bank Rate at 5¼% and the deposit rate at 5%. The Bank is continuing its policy of quantitative tightening. The Bank ...

Life insurers, like many asset managers, use fixed-income markets to implement their investment strategies. A key quality of fixed-income markets is liquidity. In a liquid market, participants can ...

Good morning. I’m pleased to be here with Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Rogers to discuss today’s policy announcement and our Monetary Policy Report. Today, we maintained our policy interest rate at ...

Do you ever wonder why some things are way more expensive than they were when you were a kid? It’s a sign of something important in our economy—inflation. Inflation is a measure of how much prices for ...

A financial market infrastructure (FMI) is a system that facilitates the clearing, settling or recording of payments, securities, derivatives or other financial transactions among participating ...

The Bank of Canada (the “Bank”), as issuer of Canadian bank notes, offers a service for the redemption, in appropriate cases, of claims for Canadian bank notes that have become contaminated or ...

After months of searching, you find the perfect house. But is the seller’s price reasonable? One way to find out is to compare it with the prices of similar houses for sale in the neighbourhood. But ...

Keeping inflation stable and predictable is a key part of the Bank of Canada’s work to support the Canadian economy. The main way the Bank does this is through changes to its policy interest rate.

The Bank publishes monthly travel and hospitality expense reports for the Chief Operating Officer, the Executive Directors and all members of the Bank's Governing Council and Board of Directors for a ...

A Government of Canada (GoC) security can be borrowed in exchange for a cash loan. To understand what influences borrowing costs for GoC securities, let’s consider the apartment rental market for ...

As the Bank of Canada assesses whether inflation is firmly on the path back to the Bank’s 2% target, corporate pricing behaviour has been identified as a key issue. Using rich data on thousands of ...