May 7, 2009

Across the Curve notes that today’s 30-year treasury auction was a disaster, perhaps due to considerations of sharply increased supply:

Today’s auction began the Treasury’s monthly sales of the so-called long bond, up from quarterly offerings at the end of last year. That means the government will boost sales of the security from $35 billion in 2008 to $120 billion this year, according to Michael Pond, an interest-rate strategist in New York at Barclays Capital Inc., one of the 16 primary dealers that trade with the central bank and are required to participate in Treasury auctions.

After the close, the Fed released results of the stress tests.

Sorry this is so late, folks! Many, many things going on.

HIMIPref™ Preferred Indices
These values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref™ Indices

Values are provisional and are finalized monthly
Index Mean
Current
Yield
(at bid)
Median
YTW
Median
Average
Trading
Value
Median
Mod Dur
(YTW)
Issues Day’s Perf. Index Value
Ratchet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 1.7296 % 1,031.5
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 1.7296 % 1,668.2
Floater 3.65 % 4.30 % 72,325 16.79 3 1.7296 % 1,288.7
OpRet 5.07 % 4.15 % 139,917 1.87 15 0.1705 % 2,147.3
SplitShare 6.04 % 8.02 % 47,742 4.27 3 -0.0791 % 1,778.6
Interest-Bearing 6.00 % 6.62 % 27,956 0.63 1 0.0000 % 1,987.2
Perpetual-Premium 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.2187 % 1,681.0
Perpetual-Discount 6.50 % 6.58 % 150,024 13.11 71 0.2187 % 1,548.2
FixedReset 5.77 % 4.92 % 549,814 4.52 36 -0.0313 % 1,961.9
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
BNS.PR.X FixedReset -2.01 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2014-05-25
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.26
Bid-YTW : 5.18 %
TD.PR.Q Perpetual-Discount -1.73 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-05-07
Maturity Price : 22.63
Evaluated at bid price : 22.76
Bid-YTW : 6.20 %
TD.PR.P Perpetual-Discount -1.54 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-05-07
Maturity Price : 21.06
Evaluated at bid price : 21.06
Bid-YTW : 6.29 %
BMO.PR.H Perpetual-Discount -1.17 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-05-07
Maturity Price : 21.06
Evaluated at bid price : 21.06
Bid-YTW : 6.32 %
NA.PR.L Perpetual-Discount -1.09 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-05-07
Maturity Price : 18.21
Evaluated at bid price : 18.21
Bid-YTW : 6.70 %
BMO.PR.L Perpetual-Discount -1.08 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-05-07
Maturity Price : 22.73
Evaluated at bid price : 22.86
Bid-YTW : 6.36 %
BNA.PR.C SplitShare 1.08 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2019-01-10
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 14.06
Bid-YTW : 12.45 %
CIU.PR.B FixedReset 1.12 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2014-07-01
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 27.10
Bid-YTW : 4.78 %
BNS.PR.N Perpetual-Discount 1.15 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-05-07
Maturity Price : 21.82
Evaluated at bid price : 21.90
Bid-YTW : 6.04 %
BMO.PR.J Perpetual-Discount 1.26 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-05-07
Maturity Price : 18.51
Evaluated at bid price : 18.51
Bid-YTW : 6.10 %
PWF.PR.F Perpetual-Discount 1.54 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-05-07
Maturity Price : 19.80
Evaluated at bid price : 19.80
Bid-YTW : 6.69 %
CM.PR.P Perpetual-Discount 1.65 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-05-07
Maturity Price : 21.53
Evaluated at bid price : 21.53
Bid-YTW : 6.45 %
W.PR.J Perpetual-Discount 1.84 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-05-07
Maturity Price : 21.01
Evaluated at bid price : 21.01
Bid-YTW : 6.75 %
NA.PR.K Perpetual-Discount 2.04 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-05-07
Maturity Price : 22.32
Evaluated at bid price : 22.50
Bid-YTW : 6.53 %
ELF.PR.F Perpetual-Discount 2.49 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-05-07
Maturity Price : 17.27
Evaluated at bid price : 17.27
Bid-YTW : 7.78 %
GWO.PR.H Perpetual-Discount 2.82 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-05-07
Maturity Price : 18.25
Evaluated at bid price : 18.25
Bid-YTW : 6.75 %
IAG.PR.A Perpetual-Discount 2.89 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-05-07
Maturity Price : 17.10
Evaluated at bid price : 17.10
Bid-YTW : 6.83 %
RY.PR.H Perpetual-Discount 3.41 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-05-07
Maturity Price : 23.77
Evaluated at bid price : 23.96
Bid-YTW : 5.91 %
PWF.PR.L Perpetual-Discount 3.75 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-05-07
Maturity Price : 19.37
Evaluated at bid price : 19.37
Bid-YTW : 6.65 %
PWF.PR.K Perpetual-Discount 4.93 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-05-07
Maturity Price : 19.16
Evaluated at bid price : 19.16
Bid-YTW : 6.52 %
BAM.PR.K Floater 5.35 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-05-07
Maturity Price : 9.25
Evaluated at bid price : 9.25
Bid-YTW : 4.30 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
GWO.PR.X OpRet 158,322 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Soft Maturity
Maturity Date : 2013-09-29
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.30
Bid-YTW : 4.64 %
RY.PR.D Perpetual-Discount 98,070 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-05-07
Maturity Price : 18.04
Evaluated at bid price : 18.04
Bid-YTW : 6.26 %
MFC.PR.B Perpetual-Discount 90,000 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2039-05-07
Maturity Price : 17.75
Evaluated at bid price : 17.75
Bid-YTW : 6.67 %
MFC.PR.D FixedReset 87,540 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2014-07-19
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.30
Bid-YTW : 5.73 %
PWF.PR.J OpRet 72,692 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Soft Maturity
Maturity Date : 2013-07-30
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.61
Bid-YTW : 4.11 %
RY.PR.Y FixedReset 68,047 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2014-12-24
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.00
Bid-YTW : 5.33 %
There were 56 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.

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