June 21, 2007

Well, Co-operators announced that the redemption procedure for CCS.PR.A isn’t quite exactly what was previously announced, and the BCE fixed-floaters had a monster day – presumably related to the Telus news, but who can tell?

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 5.70% 5.81% 30,988 14.35 2 -0.3314% 949.3
Fixed-Floater 5.42% 5.59% 139,892 14.70 7 +2.7158% 928.9
Floater 4.83% 2.39% 92,354 5.67 3 -0.0536% 1,048.5
Op. Retract 4.82% 3.74% 87,100 2.96 17 -0.1309% 1,022.2
Split-Share 5.03% 4.61% 164,573 3.99 15 -0.0259% 1,041.6
Interest Bearing 6.79% 7.09% 87,945 6.13 4 +0.0870% 1,025.2
Perpetual-Premium 5.42% 5.20% 150,800 8.35 34 -0.0760% 1,017.0
Perpetual-Discount 5.05% 5.09% 520,724 15.34 29 +0.3783% 967.2
Major Price Changes
Issue Index Change Notes
BAM.PR.J OpRet -1.2121% New low of 26.11 today. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 4.90% based on a bid of 26.08 and a softMaturity 2018-3-30 at 25.00.
POW.PR.D PerpetualDiscount +1.0000% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.15% based on a bid of 24.24 and a limitMaturity.
RY.PR.A PerpetualDiscount +1.2999% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 4.97% based on a bid of 22.60 and a limitMaturity.
BCE.PR.C FixFloat +1.7391%  Exchange/Reset date is 2008-3-1 (exchanges with series ‘AD’, not issued); until then, pays 5.54% of par. Closed at 23.40-54, 5×5.
BCE.PR.A FixFloat +2.2897%  Exchange/Reset date is 2007-9-1 (exchanges with series ‘AB’, not issued); until then, pays 5.45% of par. Closed at 23.23-39, 6×4.
BCE.PR.G FixFloat +4.1463%  Exchange/Reset date is 2011-5-1 (exchanges with BCE.PR.H); until then, pays 4.35% of par. The Gs closed at 21.35-22.99 (nice spread!), 2×3; the Hs closed at 22.82-50, 5×8.
BCE.PR.I FixFloat +5.1733%  Exchange/Reset date is 2011-8-1 (exchanges with series ‘AJ’, not issued); until then, pays 4.65% of par. Closed at 21.55-85, 18×1.
BCE.PR.R FixFloat +6.2038%  Exchange/Reset date is 2010-12-1 (exchanges with series ‘Q’, not issued); until then, pays 4.54% of par. Closed at 21.57-07, 9×1.
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Volume Notes
RY.PR.C PerpetualDiscount 110,775 Nesbitt crossed 100,000 at 23.00. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.06% based on a bid of 22.96 and a limitMaturity.
BCE.PR.C FixFloat 53,475  Exchange/Reset date is 2008-3-1 (exchanges with series ‘AD’, not issued); until then, pays 5.54% of par.  Closed at 23.40-54, 5×5.
BMO.PR.J PerpetualDiscount 45,558 Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.09% based on a bid of 22.30 and a limitMaturity.
MFC.PR.C PerpetualDiscount 37,150 Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 4.93% based on a bid of 22.90 and a limitMaturity.
BCE.PR.R FixFloat 36,830   Exchange/Reset date is 2010-12-1 (exchanges with series ‘Q’, not issued); until then, pays 4.54% of par. Closed at 21.57-07, 9×1.

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

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