{"id":35176,"date":"2020-10-08T17:09:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T13:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/?p=35176"},"modified":"2020-10-08T17:12:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T13:12:31","slug":"highlights-of-boc-governor-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/highlights-of-boc-governor-speech\/10\/08\/market-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights from BoC&#8217;s Governor Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Highlights of the speech of the BoC Governor Tiff Macklem on Thursday as follows<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><\/p><cite>&#8220;We came into the pandemic with a number of vulnerabilities; it seems certain we will exit pandemic with higher levels of government debt.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;Our policy path will eventually have an impact on financial system vulnerabilities; lower-interest-rate environment will require firms and pension funds to adjust.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;BoC will continue to assess the risk that credit losses could become large enough that banks need to tighten credit conditions.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;If this happens, the banking sector would go from being a tailwind to being a headwind; at present this risk appears to be well-managed.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;Major parts of the commodity sector face particular challenges; the longer the recovery, the greater the risk that cash flow issues could turn into solvency issues.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;Physical and financial risks from more frequent and severe weather events will almost certainly grow.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;If not appropriately priced and managed, these risks could cause losses for financial institutions and even threaten the stability of our financial system.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;Financial markets are functioning well, quantitative easing program is working, credit is flowing.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;A full recovery will take a long time and many risks remain; it will be a long slow climb to get everybody back working at pre-pandemic hours.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;Mortgage deferrals about to end, next few months will be crucial; the vast majority of those who received deferrals have returned to regular payments.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;We are watching for signs that housing markets are being driven higher by speculation; we are not back to frothy housing markets of 2016 and we expect bounceback to soften.&#8221;<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlights of the speech of the BoC Governor Tiff Macklem on Thursday as follows &#8220;We came into the pandemic with a number of vulnerabilities; it seems certain we will exit pandemic with higher levels of government debt.&#8221;&#8220;Our policy path will eventually have an impact on financial system vulnerabilities; lower-interest-rate environment will require firms and pension &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":35177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4707,36],"tags":[6932],"class_list":["post-35176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-breaking-news","category-market-updates","tag-boc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35180,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35176\/revisions\/35180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noortrends.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}