Bank of Canada maintains policy rate and forward guidance, ends quantitative easing
Media Relations Ottawa, Ontario October 27, 2021 The Bank of Canada today held its target for the overnight rate at the effective lower bound of ¼ percent, with the Bank Rate at ½ percent and the deposit rate at ¼ percent. The Bank’s extraordinary forward guidance on...
Bank of Canada maintains policy rate, continues forward guidance and current pace of quantitative easing
The Bank of Canada today held its target for the overnight rate at the effective lower bound of ¼ percent, with the Bank Rate at ½ percent and the deposit rate at ¼ percent. The Bank is maintaining its extraordinary forward guidance on the path for the overnight rate....
Bank of Canada will maintain current level of policy rate until inflation objective is achieved, continues its quantitative easing program
"The Bank of Canada today maintained its target for the overnight rate at the effective lower bound of ¼ percent, with the Bank Rate at ½ percent and the deposit rate at ¼ percent. The Bank is maintaining its extraordinary forward guidance, reinforced and supplemented...
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