June 22, 2007

Lots of chatter about BCE / Telus today, but no real news. I haven’t yet seen the suggestion that Telus might buy BCE only to get swallowed itself … but why not?

Note that these indices are experimental; the absolute and relative daily values are expected to change in the final version. In this version, index values are based at 1,000.0 on 2006-6-30
Index Mean Current Yield (at bid) Mean YTW Mean Average Trading Value Mean Mod Dur (YTW) Issues Day’s Perf. Index Value
Ratchet 5.67% 5.77% 30,212 14.39 2 +0.8089% 957.0
Fixed-Floater 5.42% 5.60% 141,074 14.67 7 +0.0203% 929.1
Floater 4.83% 2.55% 91,012 5.65 3 -0.0938% 1,047.5
Op. Retract 4.83% 4.00% 87,190 3.11 17 -0.2414% 1,019.8
Split-Share 5.03% 4.59% 161,626 4.16 15 +0.1330% 1,043.0
Interest Bearing 6.13% 7.09% 86,467 6.13 4 -0.0249% 1,024.9
Perpetual-Premium 5.42% 5.18% 149,810 7.95 34 +0.1058% 1,018.0
Perpetual-Discount 5.05% 5.10% 515,700 15.33 29 -0.1317% 966.0
Major Price Changes
Issue Index Change Notes
GWO.PR.E OpRet -1.5238% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 3.74% based on a bid of 25.85 and a call 2011-4-30 at 25.00.
POW.PR.D PerpetualDiscount -1.4026% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.23% based on a bid of 23.90 and a limitMaturity.
BCE.PR.G FixFloat -1.3583%  
PWF.PR.D OpRet -1.1295% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 4.30% based on a bid of 26.26 and a call 2008-11-30 at 25.00.
BAM.PR.M PerpetualDiscount -1.0811% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.43% based on a bid of 21.96 and a limitMaturity.
ELF.PR.G PerpetualDiscount +1.0069% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.48% based on a bid of 22.07 and a limitMaturity.
PWF.PR.I PerpetualPremium +1.2398% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.19% based on a bid of 26.13 and a limitMaturity.
BCE.PR.Z FixFloat +1.2603%  
BCE.PR.S Ratchet +1.6750%  
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Volume Notes
CM.PR.I PerpetualDiscount 127,970 Nesbitt crossed 100,000 at 23.35. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.12% based on a bid of 23.30 and a limitMaturity.
BNS.PR.M PerpetualDiscount 56,563 Nesbitt crossed 50,000 at 22.65. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.07% based on a bid of 22.61 and a limitMaturity.
GWO.PR.H PerpetualDiscount 54,000 Nesbitt crossed 49,500 at 23.76. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.12% based on a bid of 23.75 and a limitMaturity.
GWO.PR.G PerpetualPremium (for now!) 47,241 Scotia crossed 36,200 at 24.80. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.28% based on a bid of 24.70 and a limitMaturity.
BCE.PR.I FixFloat 28,612  

There were twenty-one other $25-equivalent index-included issues trading over 10,000 shares today.

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