Canadian Interest Rate Projections – August 31

Looking at Banker’s Acceptance Futures, we have the following rates:

Month / Strike Bid Price Ask Price Settl. Price Net Change Vol.
+ 10 SE 98.915 98.930 98.925 0.000 16053
+ 10 OC 0.000 0.000 98.830 0.000 0
+ 10 NO 0.000 0.000 98.820 0.000 0
+ 10 DE 98.890 98.900 98.900 0.000 27314
+ 11 MR 98.820 98.830 98.830 0.000 25451
+ 11 JN 98.740 98.750 98.750 -0.010 8618
+ 11 SE 98.600 98.620 98.610 0.010 1774
+ 11 DE 98.480 98.520 98.490 0.020 1197
+ 12 MR 98.360 98.440 98.370 0.060 386

It looks like that there will be a higher than 50/50 probability that the Bank of Canada will raise their overnight target rate by 0.25% in their September meeting, but after that, future rates in the 2011 calendar year are projected to go up by 0.25% to 0.5%.

The drop in increase expectations has likely contributed to depreciation of the Canadian currency – currently at 94 cents US to a Canadian dollar, while this was high as 98 cents earlier in August, and at parity back in April.  During the depths of the economic crisis, the Canadian dollar reached 78 cents multiple times throughout the October 2008 to March 2009 period.