Bitcoin
Global, trades 24/7
$81,477.00
-747.52 (-0.91%)$81,717$80,806
Live
Ethereum
Global, trades 24/7
$2,420.05
-19.60 (-0.80%)$2,447$2,394
Live
USD / CAD
Bank of Canada, daily
1.4154
-0.0042 (-0.30%)1.42711.3576
US Dollar in Canadian Dollars As at 16 Oct
Policy Rate
Canada
2.25%
0.00 (0.00%)2.25%
Bank of Canada Policy Rate As at 15 Oct
Canada 10-Year
Government of Canada
3.83%
-0.02 (-0.52%)3.99%3.36%
Canada 10-Year Bond Yield As at 15 Oct
US 2-Year
United States
4.77%
-0.05 (-1.04%)4.92%3.78%
US 2-Year Treasury Yield As at 15 Oct
US 10-Year
United States
5.10%
-0.09 (-1.73%)5.31%4.31%
US 10-Year Treasury Yield As at 15 Oct
WTI Crude
Cushing, Oklahoma
$101.91
+1.05 (+1.04%)$112.25$69.60
WTI Crude Oil As at 14 Oct
Brent Crude
North Sea
$126.55
+0.77 (+0.61%)$135.51$68.53
Brent Crude Oil As at 14 Oct
Published figures, shown as released. Not for trading use. Data published by CoinGecko, Bank of Canada and FRED.
What you are looking at
A board for the numbers that set the price of money in Canada, alongside the two global figures that push them around. Each card shows the latest published value, the change from the previous reading, and that change as a percentage.
A value on its own tells you less than you would think. What matters is the direction and the size of the move, which is why the change is given as much room as the number it belongs to, and why each card carries its own recent history beside it.
Bitcoin
Priced in US dollars against a volume-weighted average across major exchanges. Unlike everything else on this board, it never closes and it has no official publisher.
Ethereum
The second largest cryptocurrency by market value, priced in US dollars. Like Bitcoin it trades continuously with no official publisher, but it is built as a programmable platform rather than purely a store of value.
US Dollar in Canadian Dollars
How many Canadian dollars one US dollar buys. The Bank of Canada sets this once each business day by 16:30 Eastern. It is an indicative rate, not a dealing rate.
Bank of Canada Policy Rate
The target for the overnight rate, the interest rate the Bank of Canada actually sets. Prime rates, variable mortgages and lines of credit all move with it.
Canada 10-Year Bond Yield
The yield on the Government of Canada ten-year benchmark bond. Fixed mortgage rates are priced off the shorter end of this curve, so it is worth watching if you have a renewal coming.
US 2-Year Treasury Yield
The two-year Treasury moves on what markets expect the Federal Reserve to do next, so it reacts faster than the ten-year. When it sits above the ten-year the yield curve is inverted, a pattern that has often preceded US recessions.
US 10-Year Treasury Yield
The benchmark US government borrowing rate, and the number most other interest rates in the world are ultimately priced against.
WTI Crude Oil
West Texas Intermediate, the US benchmark crude grade, quoted per barrel. It feeds through to the pump within a few weeks.
Brent Crude Oil
The North Sea benchmark, and the grade most of the world outside North America prices against. The gap between Brent and WTI reflects what it costs to move North American crude to buyers overseas.
Where these numbers come from
Everything here is published by the institution that produces it. The exchange rate, the policy rate and the Canadian bond yield are Bank of Canada series, released once each business day by 16:30 Eastern. The US Treasury yields and the two crude oil benchmarks come through FRED from the Federal Reserve Board and the Energy Information Administration. Bitcoin and Ethereum are traded continuously and have no official publisher, so they come from CoinGecko.
That matters more than it sounds. A great deal of market data is licensed property that cannot legally be republished on a free page, which is why so many sites either pay for it or quietly take it anyway. Every figure on this board is either public information or carries written permission, and it is shown exactly as the publisher released it.
What this board adds is the arithmetic. The change, the percentage change and the range on each chart are calculated here from the published values; the values themselves are not adjusted, rounded away or recalculated. Because these series are published once a business day rather than continuously, the figure you see is the most recent release, not a live quote, and nothing here should be used for trading.
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