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Canada's Murray: 2% inflation target not necessarily optimal
Bank of Canada deputy John Murray says inflation targets could be even lower than 2%
Bank of Canada on inflation expectations
Bank of Canada Review features articles on targeting inflation expectations, rate pledges and using monetary policy to tackle imbalances
BoC: contingent capital must supplement counter-cyclical capital buffers
Bank of Canada study says contingent capital more effective in providing liquidity to banks in a crisis
Impact of pledge to keep rates on hold unclear: Bank of Canada
Canadian central bank research says conditional commitment to keep rates low has had mixed effect; study shows pledge lowered interest rates on government bonds, but findings not statistically strong
Canada throws weight behind Basel III, lauding output gains
Bank of Canada says forthcoming capital and liquidity ratios will save the country nearly C$200 billion; stresses that Canada must not rest on laurels, not having experienced banking crisis
Bank of Canada: firms don’t smooth inventories
Bank of Canada study shows high costs attached to inventories deters firms from smoothing inventory ahead of countercyclical swings
Canada’s Carney explains rate hike
Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney says decision to hike rates was due to unexpected improvement in private demand
Bank of Canada: Chinese shocks have global bearing
Bank of Canada study shows China’s monetary policy is less effective at weathering shocks and country must be incorporated in global models
EXCLUSIVE: Pick and choose from social media tools: BIS’s Laurmaa
Bank for International Settlements’ head of web publishing Timo Laurmaa says Twitter more beneficial to profit-making companies; short releases help when reaching out to wider-than-usual audience
Canada names Goldman banker as governor’s adviser
Goldman Sachs’ Canadian chief executive officer appointed special adviser to the governor
Canada’s Carney named CGFS chair
Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney to step into Federal Reserve vice-chairman Donald Kohn’s shoes and head Basel-based Committee on the Global Financial System; follows Kohn’s retirement
Agathe Côté named new Bank of Canada deputy
Bank of Canada adviser Agathe Côté named as replacement to Duguay after deputy governor retires
Eurozone crisis threatens Canadian financial stability
Bank of Canada links deterioration of risks surrounding global imbalances and the growth outlook to single currency zone’s sovereign debt crisis
Bank of Canada: foreign US Treasury holders depressed long term yields
A Bank of Canada study into long-term US Treasury yields finds foreign holders absorbed the excess supply of bonds and decreased yields pre-crisis
Canada’s Carney praises ‘decisive’ ECB step
Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney lends support to European Central Bank’s disputed bond purchase programme; says fiscal, not monetary exit will be tricky
Canada hikes by quarter point
Bank of Canada raises overnight rate to 0.5%
Canada's Duguay: terminating penny coin has no impact on inflation
Bank of Canada deputy governor Pierre Duguay says eliminating penny coin will pose little threat of inflation
Surge in foreign holdings of US Treasuries and agencies ends two-week slide
Data show holdings of US Treasuries and agency securities by foreign central banks with accounts at the Federal Reserve increased $18.2 billion on the back of two weeks of declines
Bank of Canada: contractionary monetary shocks outweigh expansionary ones
Bank of Canada study shows that contractionary monetary policy shocks have more impact on output than expansionary shocks
Foreign holdings of US Treasuries fall for second straight week
Data show holdings of US Treasuries by foreign central banks with accounts at the Federal Reserve declined for a second successive week; use of swap lines lower than expected
Bank of Canada: Credibility helps keep inflation expectations anchored
Bank of Canada study shows central bank credibility helped anchor inflation expectations during global financial crisis
Buba’s Weber interested in price-level targeting
Bundesbank president Axel Weber says move to price-level targeting could help anchor inflation expectations
Bank of Canada launches new commodities index
Bank of Canada replaces old fixed-weight measure with new Fisher chain index of Canada’s commodities market
Europe gambles to save currency union
Markets surge as European Central Bank changes course and commits to buying government bonds, move comes as eurozone and IMF unveil trillion-dollar support package