Archive for February, 2023

ENB.PF.K : No Conversion To FloatingReset

Saturday, February 18th, 2023

Enbridge Inc. has announced (on 2023-2-14):

that none of its outstanding Cumulative Redeemable Minimum Rate Reset Preference Shares, Series 19 (Series 19 Shares) will be converted into Cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares, Series 20 (Series 20 Shares) on March 1, 2023.

After taking into account all conversion notices received from holders of its outstanding Series 19 Shares by the February 14, 2023 deadline for the conversion of the Series 19 Shares into Series 20 Shares, less than the 1,000,000 Series 19 Shares required to give effect to conversions into Series 20 Shares were tendered for conversion.

ENB.PF.K was issued as a FixedReset 4.90%+317M490 that commenced trading 2017-2-11 after being announced 2017-12-4. The issue resets to 6.212% effective 2023-3-1. It is tracked by HIMIPref™ but has been relegated to the Scraps – FixedReset (Discount) subindex on credit concerns.

Thanks to Assiduous Reader CanSiamCyp for bringing this to my attention.

ENB.PR.D : No Conversion to FloatingReset

Friday, February 17th, 2023

Enbridge Inc. has announced (on 2023-2-14):

that none of its outstanding Cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares, Series D (Series D Shares) will be converted into Cumulative Redeemable Preference Shares, Series E (Series E Shares) on March 1, 2023.

After taking into account all conversion notices received from holders of its outstanding Series D Shares by the February 14, 2023 deadline for the conversion of the Series D Shares into Series E Shares, less than the 1,000,000 Series D Shares required to give effect to conversions into Series E Shares were tendered for conversion.

ENB.PR.D is a FixedReset, 4.00%+237, that commenced trading 2011-11-23 after being announced 2011-11-14. It reset to 4.46% in 2018; I recommended against conversion; and there was no conversion. ENB.PR.D will reset to 5.412% effective 2023-3-1. The issue is tracked by HIMIPref™ but relegated to the Scraps – FixedReset (Discount) subindex due to credit concerns.

Update, 2023-2-18: An earlier version of this post quoted from and linked to the incorrect press release! This has been corrected – sorry about that!

February 17, 2023

Friday, February 17th, 2023

TXPR closed at 580.81, down 0.50% on the day. Volume today was 980,030, below the median of the past 21 trading days.

CPD closed at 11.59, down 0.17% on the day. Volume was 102,580, fourth highest of the past 21 trading days.

ZPR closed at 9.63, up 0.21% on the day. Volume was 150,370, slightly above the median of the past 21 trading days.

Five-year Canada yields were were up to 3.48% today.

It was a poor day all ’round, abetted by Fed commentary:

Adding to recent worries about monetary policy, Fed Governor Michelle Bowman said the central bank will need to keep raising interest rates until it makes much more progress tackling inflation. Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin said the central bank still needs to raise interest rates, but that it could stick with quarter-point increases.

… and the Canadian Industrial Product Price Index announcement didn’t help:

In January 2023, the Industrial Product Price Index increased 0.4% month over month, following two consecutive months of declines, and rose 5.4% year over year.

Prices for energy and petroleum products rose 0.4% month over month, following a 10.2% decline in December. Year over year, prices were 19.8% higher in January compared with January 2022. In January 2023, the price of finished motor gasoline was up 8.8% and jet fuel rose 14.1%, while diesel fuel fell 4.8%. The price of conventional crude oil, the raw material used to make refined petroleum products, rose by 1.3% in January. In late December, US refinery utilization dropped as a result of severe cold weather conditions, putting upward pressure on refined product prices. The 14.1% jet fuel price increase was the largest January month-over-month increase on record, and the sixth-largest month-over-month gain overall. Jet fuel prices rose partly due to higher global travel demand, as COVID-19 travel restrictions in China were lifted. According to data from Canadian Air Transport Authority, 3.9 million passengers travelled through Canada’s eight largest airports in January, more than double the number from January 2022.

Guess what’s still going through the courts?:

Almost 20 years since harmful market-timing trading in mutual funds was first exposed by U.S. authorities, an Ontario court has found that fund managers breached their duties to investors when they failed to prevent market-timing trading by allowing hedge funds to use their funds to engage in the practice.

Later, a class action was filed against the five major fund managers that had reached settlements with the Ontario Securities Commission over the practice — IG Investment Management Ltd., CI Mutual Funds Inc., Franklin Templeton Investments Corp., AGF Funds Inc. and AIC Ltd. Three of those five firms have since settled.

While the mutual funds’ prospectuses warned about the harm from frequent trading and threatened 2% fees to prevent it, “the defendants not only failed to take steps to prevent frequent trading or charge the fees set out in their prospectuses when it occurred, they facilitated frequent trading by entering into ‘switch agreements’ which allowed certain investors to switch in and out of funds for a fee of only 0.2%,” the court noted.

According to the court’s ruling, the firms argued they weren’t aware that the frequent traders were engaged in “time zone arbitrage.”

However, the court found that the specific form of market timing didn’t matter — it was the frequent trading that harmed long-term investors.

“Had the defendants taken steps to prevent or prohibit frequent trading, they would have prevented time zone arbitrage as well,” it said.

At the same time, the court ruled that while the fund firms were negligent, they did not breach their fiduciary duties to investors.

“I do not find that their negligence rises to a breach of honesty or good faith,” the court said in its decision.

“The defendants may have acted with considerable hubris in thinking that their own ‘knowledge’ of the market was superior to that of experienced, sophisticated hedge funds. They acted with a lack of knowledge that fell below the standards of care in failing to recognize the dangers of frequent short-term trading. They acted with carelessness in failing to understand what the frequent traders were telling them. They acted negligently in failing to examine past or current trading records to test their random walk thesis, but I am not persuaded that they acted in breach of their fiduciary duties,” it said.

Based on the finding that the companies breached their duties of care, however, the court directed the case to proceed to a trial to determine investors’ damages.

Well, I haven’t read the actual decision, so I won’t comment too much. Let’s just say that these guys were either crooked or stupid and the most surprising thing is that any of these firms are still in business.

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 -0.4456 % 2,576.5
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.4456 % 4,941.8
Floater 8.75 % 8.95 % 55,752 10.36 2 -0.4456 % 2,848.0
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.0419 % 3,429.8
SplitShare 4.90 % 6.53 % 55,786 2.76 7 0.0419 % 4,095.9
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.0419 % 3,195.8
Perpetual-Premium 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.9815 % 2,799.4
Perpetual-Discount 6.09 % 6.16 % 71,305 13.61 37 -0.9815 % 3,052.6
FixedReset Disc 5.32 % 7.34 % 89,151 12.29 59 -0.5066 % 2,293.2
Insurance Straight 5.98 % 6.11 % 91,930 13.67 20 -1.0548 % 3,004.8
FloatingReset 9.68 % 10.14 % 38,132 9.35 2 -0.1552 % 2,610.3
FixedReset Prem 6.39 % 6.49 % 202,941 4.02 2 -0.0595 % 2,374.9
FixedReset Bank Non 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.5066 % 2,344.1
FixedReset Ins Non 5.22 % 6.93 % 48,911 12.58 14 -0.1949 % 2,472.8
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
POW.PR.B Perpetual-Discount -5.39 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 21.22
Evaluated at bid price : 21.22
Bid-YTW : 6.40 %
POW.PR.C Perpetual-Discount -4.75 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 22.76
Evaluated at bid price : 23.04
Bid-YTW : 6.37 %
GWO.PR.P Insurance Straight -4.06 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 21.25
Evaluated at bid price : 21.25
Bid-YTW : 6.47 %
BN.PR.M Perpetual-Discount -3.72 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 18.62
Evaluated at bid price : 18.62
Bid-YTW : 6.49 %
GWO.PR.I Insurance Straight -3.09 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 18.80
Evaluated at bid price : 18.80
Bid-YTW : 6.09 %
GWO.PR.T Insurance Straight -2.73 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 21.01
Evaluated at bid price : 21.01
Bid-YTW : 6.24 %
BN.PR.X FixedReset Disc -2.71 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 16.54
Evaluated at bid price : 16.54
Bid-YTW : 7.65 %
BN.PF.D Perpetual-Discount -2.50 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 19.50
Evaluated at bid price : 19.50
Bid-YTW : 6.40 %
IFC.PR.I Perpetual-Discount -2.49 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 22.02
Evaluated at bid price : 22.31
Bid-YTW : 6.14 %
BN.PR.Z FixedReset Disc -2.49 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 21.56
Evaluated at bid price : 21.56
Bid-YTW : 7.35 %
PWF.PR.L Perpetual-Discount -2.44 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 20.78
Evaluated at bid price : 20.78
Bid-YTW : 6.20 %
CM.PR.Q FixedReset Disc -2.01 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 19.50
Evaluated at bid price : 19.50
Bid-YTW : 7.22 %
CM.PR.P FixedReset Disc -1.94 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 17.65
Evaluated at bid price : 17.65
Bid-YTW : 7.61 %
PWF.PR.E Perpetual-Discount -1.72 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 22.05
Evaluated at bid price : 22.28
Bid-YTW : 6.23 %
MFC.PR.B Insurance Straight -1.71 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 20.09
Evaluated at bid price : 20.09
Bid-YTW : 5.90 %
IFC.PR.G FixedReset Ins Non -1.69 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 21.55
Evaluated at bid price : 21.55
Bid-YTW : 6.90 %
ELF.PR.F Perpetual-Discount -1.67 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 21.26
Evaluated at bid price : 21.26
Bid-YTW : 6.32 %
PWF.PR.H Perpetual-Discount -1.65 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 22.93
Evaluated at bid price : 23.21
Bid-YTW : 6.25 %
GWO.PR.Q Insurance Straight -1.63 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 21.15
Evaluated at bid price : 21.15
Bid-YTW : 6.19 %
GWO.PR.G Insurance Straight -1.60 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 21.50
Evaluated at bid price : 21.50
Bid-YTW : 6.15 %
RY.PR.O Perpetual-Discount -1.57 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 22.22
Evaluated at bid price : 22.50
Bid-YTW : 5.46 %
PWF.PR.Z Perpetual-Discount -1.57 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 21.34
Evaluated at bid price : 21.34
Bid-YTW : 6.10 %
RY.PR.J FixedReset Disc -1.55 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 19.70
Evaluated at bid price : 19.70
Bid-YTW : 7.18 %
GWO.PR.H Insurance Straight -1.51 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 20.20
Evaluated at bid price : 20.20
Bid-YTW : 6.11 %
TD.PF.A FixedReset Disc -1.50 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 17.70
Evaluated at bid price : 17.70
Bid-YTW : 7.62 %
BN.PR.N Perpetual-Discount -1.45 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 19.00
Evaluated at bid price : 19.00
Bid-YTW : 6.36 %
RY.PR.N Perpetual-Discount -1.45 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 22.22
Evaluated at bid price : 22.50
Bid-YTW : 5.46 %
GWO.PR.Y Insurance Straight -1.44 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 19.15
Evaluated at bid price : 19.15
Bid-YTW : 5.97 %
SLF.PR.G FixedReset Ins Non -1.41 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 13.26
Evaluated at bid price : 13.26
Bid-YTW : 8.09 %
SLF.PR.D Insurance Straight -1.37 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 19.50
Evaluated at bid price : 19.50
Bid-YTW : 5.80 %
CU.PR.F Perpetual-Discount -1.32 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 18.75
Evaluated at bid price : 18.75
Bid-YTW : 6.03 %
GWO.PR.L Insurance Straight -1.29 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 22.71
Evaluated at bid price : 22.95
Bid-YTW : 6.25 %
SLF.PR.C Insurance Straight -1.27 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 19.50
Evaluated at bid price : 19.50
Bid-YTW : 5.80 %
TD.PF.D FixedReset Disc -1.26 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 19.60
Evaluated at bid price : 19.60
Bid-YTW : 7.25 %
GWO.PR.R Insurance Straight -1.22 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 20.20
Evaluated at bid price : 20.20
Bid-YTW : 6.04 %
BMO.PR.T FixedReset Disc -1.22 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 17.85
Evaluated at bid price : 17.85
Bid-YTW : 7.56 %
NA.PR.S FixedReset Disc -1.21 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 18.72
Evaluated at bid price : 18.72
Bid-YTW : 7.52 %
NA.PR.G FixedReset Disc -1.21 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 21.60
Evaluated at bid price : 21.98
Bid-YTW : 6.91 %
SLF.PR.J FloatingReset -1.19 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 15.76
Evaluated at bid price : 15.76
Bid-YTW : 9.71 %
TD.PF.K FixedReset Disc -1.17 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 21.05
Evaluated at bid price : 21.05
Bid-YTW : 7.04 %
TRP.PR.D FixedReset Disc -1.14 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 16.41
Evaluated at bid price : 16.41
Bid-YTW : 8.56 %
CM.PR.S FixedReset Disc -1.14 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 22.51
Evaluated at bid price : 22.51
Bid-YTW : 6.52 %
GWO.PR.M Insurance Straight -1.09 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 23.20
Evaluated at bid price : 23.50
Bid-YTW : 6.26 %
TRP.PR.A FixedReset Disc -1.08 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 14.65
Evaluated at bid price : 14.65
Bid-YTW : 8.67 %
MFC.PR.L FixedReset Ins Non -1.07 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 17.64
Evaluated at bid price : 17.64
Bid-YTW : 7.69 %
BIP.PR.F FixedReset Disc 1.90 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 21.50
Evaluated at bid price : 21.50
Bid-YTW : 7.31 %
SLF.PR.E Insurance Straight 4.05 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 19.00
Evaluated at bid price : 19.00
Bid-YTW : 6.02 %
PWF.PR.R Perpetual-Discount 4.07 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 22.04
Evaluated at bid price : 22.27
Bid-YTW : 6.23 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
BN.PR.K Floater 73,900 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 13.41
Evaluated at bid price : 13.41
Bid-YTW : 8.95 %
BN.PF.F FixedReset Disc 38,200 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 18.25
Evaluated at bid price : 18.25
Bid-YTW : 8.26 %
BMO.PR.E FixedReset Disc 31,615 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 21.31
Evaluated at bid price : 21.58
Bid-YTW : 6.92 %
BN.PF.B FixedReset Disc 29,400 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 18.07
Evaluated at bid price : 18.07
Bid-YTW : 8.22 %
MFC.PR.I FixedReset Ins Non 26,000 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 22.69
Evaluated at bid price : 23.75
Bid-YTW : 6.52 %
RY.PR.H FixedReset Disc 19,756 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 18.35
Evaluated at bid price : 18.35
Bid-YTW : 7.39 %
There were 6 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
MIC.PR.A Perpetual-Discount Quote: 19.96 – 28.99
Spot Rate : 9.0300
Average : 4.9255

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 19.96
Evaluated at bid price : 19.96
Bid-YTW : 6.89 %

PWF.PR.E Perpetual-Discount Quote: 22.28 – 25.50
Spot Rate : 3.2200
Average : 1.9018

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 22.05
Evaluated at bid price : 22.28
Bid-YTW : 6.23 %

POW.PR.C Perpetual-Discount Quote: 23.04 – 24.40
Spot Rate : 1.3600
Average : 0.7914

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 22.76
Evaluated at bid price : 23.04
Bid-YTW : 6.37 %

POW.PR.B Perpetual-Discount Quote: 21.22 – 22.34
Spot Rate : 1.1200
Average : 0.6224

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 21.22
Evaluated at bid price : 21.22
Bid-YTW : 6.40 %

BN.PR.R FixedReset Disc Quote: 15.05 – 16.47
Spot Rate : 1.4200
Average : 0.9468

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 15.05
Evaluated at bid price : 15.05
Bid-YTW : 8.49 %

MFC.PR.M FixedReset Ins Non Quote: 18.41 – 20.45
Spot Rate : 2.0400
Average : 1.5807

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-17
Maturity Price : 18.41
Evaluated at bid price : 18.41
Bid-YTW : 7.52 %

February 16, 2023

Thursday, February 16th, 2023

US Producer Prices came in high:

The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, offering more evidence of the economy’s resilience despite tighter monetary policy.

Other data on Thursday showed monthly producer prices increasing by the most in seven months in January as the cost of energy products surged. Even stripping out food and energy, prices for the so-called core goods recorded their biggest gain since last May.

A second report from the Labor Department on Thursday showed the producer price index for final demand rebounded 0.7% in January, the largest increase since June, after decreasing 0.2% in December. The rise was led by a 1.2% advance in goods prices, which followed a 1.4% decline in December.

A 6.2% jump gasoline prices accounted for nearly a third of the increase in goods. There were also increases in prices for residential natural gas, diesel fuel, jet fuel, soft drinks and motor vehicles.

But fresh and dry vegetable prices tumbled 33.5%. Excluding food and energy, core goods prices shot up 0.6%. That was the biggest increase in core goods prices in eight months and followed a 0.2 gain in December. Services increased 0.4%, matching December’s gain.

In the 12 months through January, the PPI increased 6.0% after advancing 6.5% in December. Economists had forecast the PPI climbing 0.4% and rising 5.4% year-on-year.

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Loretta Mester talked tough:

The Fed “has come an appreciable way in bringing policy from a very accommodative stance to a restrictive one, but I believe we have more work to do,” Mester said in a speech text. “At this juncture, the incoming data have not changed my view that we will need to bring the fed funds rate above 5 per cent and hold it there for some time to be sufficiently restrictive to ensure that inflation is on a sustainable path back to 2 per cent,” she said.

Mester, who does not have a vote on the Federal Open Market Committee this year, noted she would have been open to a larger rate rise at the gathering. “Setting aside what financial market participants expected us to do, I saw a compelling economic case for a 50-basis-point increase, which would have brought the top of the target range to 5 per cent,” she said.

Tiff Macklem is fairly upbeat:

The Canadian economy may be on track for a recession this year, but it won’t feel as severe as other downturns the country has experienced over the past few decades, according to Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem.

“It’s not going to feel great. But it is not going to feel like what people think of when you say the word recession,” Mr. Macklem said in an appearance before the House of Commons finance committee on Thursday. “You say recession, they think big job losses, very, very painful.”

“But this is still going to be a pretty healthy labour market,” Mr. Macklem said. “This is not going to feel like the kind of recessions that we had in ‘08, or ‘81 or ‘91.”

Mr. Macklem reiterated that the Bank of Canada does not expect to raise interest rates further, despite a stronger-than-expected January jobs report published on Friday. But he said he’s willing to hike rates again if inflation does not drop as much as the bank is forecasting. The bank has raised its policy interest rate to 4.5 per cent from 0.25 per cent since March.

The Globe highlighted some Senate fluff:

A Senate committee is calling for greater parliamentary oversight of the Bank of Canada as well as increased transparency, wading into a debate around central bank independence at a moment of heightened political interest in monetary policy.

The Senate committee on banking, commerce and the economy published a report on Wednesday looking at the causes of high inflation and the state of the economy. The report did not make any formal recommendations, but it did suggest that parliamentarians should spend more time looking at monetary policy issues.

“What is evident is the need for enhanced Parliamentary oversight over the deployment of fiscal and monetary tools, particularly in times of crisis and uncertainty,” the report said.

“The Bank of Canada should be more transparent and periodically make public its assessment of the effect of its interventions on inflation and on the evolution of key economic indicators,” it added.

Well, I went to the committee’s report page and got a copy of the report The State of the Canadian Economy and Inflation. It’s garbage. You saw that line in the Globe’s report, “A Senate committee is calling for greater parliamentary oversight of the Bank of Canada”? You know what the Committee’s report says?:

What is evident is the need for enhanced Parliamentary oversight over the deployment of fiscal and monetary tools, particularly in times of crisis and uncertainty.

That’s not a headline. That’s not an introductory sentence. That’s the whole damn thing; there’s not a single sentence in the report that specifies what so-called enhancements are evidently needed; there’s not a single sentence in the report that provides any support for the assertion. Garbage.

The rest of the fluff is along the same lines. There are some fairly big names being interviewed by the committee, but they simply provide unsupported and unchallenged assertions about their views on the economy, BoC policy, whatever. There’s nothing of any substance in the piece, nothing referenced, nothing challenged. Garbage.

The Boston Fed has released a study of forecasting of the ‘shelter’ component of the US CPI:

According to the authors’ forecast, CPI shelter will increase 5.9% from September 2022 to September 2023 and 3.9% over the ensuing 12 months. By contrast, from 2000 through 2019, CPI shelter rose an average of 2.7% annually.

The authors base their forecast of rapidly rising CPI shelter on two trends: (1) Although market-rent growth has slowed recently, it was substantially faster than CPI-shelter growth throughout 2021 and the first half of 2022, and (2) CPI shelter usually catches up with market rents.

The authors explain that CPI shelter tends to lag market rents because of the way that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics constructs CPI shelter. The BLS gathers information for the index through its Consumer Price Index Housing Survey. The survey measures average rental prices for all renters – new and existing – whereas market rents measure only rental prices for new tenants. The authors note that landlords tend to raise the rents of current tenants slowly, so an index that includes current tenants’ rents is going to be lower than one that excludes them.

If CPI shelter does increase 5.9% from September 2022 to September 2023, as the authors forecast, and 3.9% over the ensuing 12 months, the headline CPI will be 1% higher over the first 12-month period and 0.4% higher from September 2023 to September 2024 compared with what it would be if shelter prices grew at the pre-pandemic pace of 2.7%. The core CPI will be 1.3% and 0.5% higher.

And there’s data from the New York Fed’s Household Debt and Credit Report:

Total household debt rose by $394 billion, or 2.4 percent, to $16.90 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2022, according to the latest Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit. Credit card balances increased by $61 billion to reach $986 billion, surpassing the pre-pandemic high of $927 billion; mortgage balances rose to $11.92 trillion, auto loan balances to $1.55 trillion, and student loan balances to $1.60 trillion. The share of current debt transitioning into delinquency increased for nearly all debt types.

And, finally, a complaint about reporting:

An IT failure at Lufthansa stranded thousands of passengers and forced flights to Germany’s busiest airport to be cancelled or diverted on Wednesday, with the airline blaming botched railway engineering works that damaged broadband cables.

More than 200 flights were cancelled in Frankfurt, a vital international transit hub and one of Europe’s biggest airports, a spokesperson for operator Fraport said.

Lufthansa later said all its IT systems were up and running again and that it expected Frankfurt flights to return to normal on Thursday.

Lufthansa and Germany’s national train operator blamed the problem on third-party engineering works on a railway line extension that took place on Tuesday evening, when a drill cut through a Deutsche Telekom fibre optic cable bundle.

I can’t really do better than to copy-paste my comment on the Globe’s site:

Details are missing here.

We are being told that one cut in one cable caused this system crash. Where’s the redundancy? The whole point of the Internet is to ensure that networks operate with absolutely minimal exposure to single point failure – and if this cable wasn’t part of the Internet, what system was it part of? Who tried to reduce expenses and promote efficiency by building a shoddy system that could be brought to its kness by one cut in one cable?

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 0.4851 % 2,588.1
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.4851 % 4,963.9
Floater 8.71 % 8.90 % 51,583 10.41 2 0.4851 % 2,860.7
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.2578 % 3,428.4
SplitShare 4.90 % 6.51 % 55,758 2.76 7 0.2578 % 4,094.2
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.2578 % 3,194.5
Perpetual-Premium 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.3215 % 2,827.1
Perpetual-Discount 6.03 % 6.09 % 73,969 13.77 37 -0.3215 % 3,082.9
FixedReset Disc 5.29 % 7.31 % 88,294 12.33 59 0.0052 % 2,304.8
Insurance Straight 5.91 % 6.06 % 93,562 13.76 20 -0.5329 % 3,036.9
FloatingReset 9.66 % 10.22 % 39,549 9.28 2 0.3114 % 2,614.3
FixedReset Prem 6.39 % 6.40 % 204,766 4.02 2 -0.8264 % 2,376.3
FixedReset Bank Non 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.0052 % 2,356.0
FixedReset Ins Non 5.21 % 6.95 % 48,640 12.55 14 0.0727 % 2,477.6
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
SLF.PR.E Insurance Straight -8.70 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 18.26
Evaluated at bid price : 18.26
Bid-YTW : 6.27 %
PWF.PR.R Perpetual-Discount -5.73 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 21.40
Evaluated at bid price : 21.40
Bid-YTW : 6.50 %
PWF.PR.P FixedReset Disc -3.41 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 13.33
Evaluated at bid price : 13.33
Bid-YTW : 8.14 %
BN.PF.G FixedReset Disc -3.30 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 16.40
Evaluated at bid price : 16.40
Bid-YTW : 8.73 %
BIP.PR.F FixedReset Disc -2.41 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 21.10
Evaluated at bid price : 21.10
Bid-YTW : 7.45 %
MFC.PR.C Insurance Straight -1.86 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 19.50
Evaluated at bid price : 19.50
Bid-YTW : 5.88 %
POW.PR.D Perpetual-Discount -1.77 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 21.10
Evaluated at bid price : 21.10
Bid-YTW : 6.01 %
MIC.PR.A Perpetual-Discount -1.72 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 20.05
Evaluated at bid price : 20.05
Bid-YTW : 6.86 %
POW.PR.A Perpetual-Discount -1.71 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 22.77
Evaluated at bid price : 23.05
Bid-YTW : 6.15 %
MFC.PR.I FixedReset Ins Non -1.67 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 22.58
Evaluated at bid price : 23.52
Bid-YTW : 6.59 %
BIK.PR.A FixedReset Prem -1.59 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 24.31
Evaluated at bid price : 24.70
Bid-YTW : 7.37 %
FTS.PR.G FixedReset Disc -1.57 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 18.16
Evaluated at bid price : 18.16
Bid-YTW : 7.50 %
PWF.PR.O Perpetual-Discount -1.18 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 23.20
Evaluated at bid price : 23.50
Bid-YTW : 6.22 %
GWO.PR.L Insurance Straight -1.11 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 22.98
Evaluated at bid price : 23.25
Bid-YTW : 6.17 %
TRP.PR.A FixedReset Disc 1.09 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 14.81
Evaluated at bid price : 14.81
Bid-YTW : 8.58 %
SLF.PR.J FloatingReset 1.21 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 15.95
Evaluated at bid price : 15.95
Bid-YTW : 9.59 %
MFC.PR.J FixedReset Ins Non 1.34 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 22.13
Evaluated at bid price : 22.75
Bid-YTW : 6.61 %
NA.PR.G FixedReset Disc 1.37 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 21.79
Evaluated at bid price : 22.25
Bid-YTW : 6.82 %
BN.PR.N Perpetual-Discount 1.47 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 19.28
Evaluated at bid price : 19.28
Bid-YTW : 6.27 %
MFC.PR.K FixedReset Ins Non 1.70 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 19.73
Evaluated at bid price : 19.73
Bid-YTW : 7.10 %
PVS.PR.K SplitShare 2.02 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2029-05-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 22.70
Bid-YTW : 6.46 %
IFC.PR.F Insurance Straight 6.27 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 21.74
Evaluated at bid price : 22.05
Bid-YTW : 6.10 %
BN.PF.C Perpetual-Discount 6.68 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 19.63
Evaluated at bid price : 19.63
Bid-YTW : 6.29 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
RY.PR.Z FixedReset Disc 53,225 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 18.32
Evaluated at bid price : 18.32
Bid-YTW : 7.39 %
BMO.PR.T FixedReset Disc 46,208 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 18.07
Evaluated at bid price : 18.07
Bid-YTW : 7.47 %
NA.PR.C FixedReset Prem 25,272 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2027-11-15
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.70
Bid-YTW : 6.40 %
TD.PF.K FixedReset Disc 19,640 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 21.30
Evaluated at bid price : 21.30
Bid-YTW : 6.96 %
TRP.PR.D FixedReset Disc 18,400 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 16.60
Evaluated at bid price : 16.60
Bid-YTW : 8.46 %
CM.PR.S FixedReset Disc 14,146 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 22.77
Evaluated at bid price : 22.77
Bid-YTW : 6.44 %
There were 4 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
SLF.PR.E Insurance Straight Quote: 18.26 – 20.40
Spot Rate : 2.1400
Average : 1.2503

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 18.26
Evaluated at bid price : 18.26
Bid-YTW : 6.27 %

PWF.PR.R Perpetual-Discount Quote: 21.40 – 22.85
Spot Rate : 1.4500
Average : 0.8743

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 21.40
Evaluated at bid price : 21.40
Bid-YTW : 6.50 %

MFC.PR.M FixedReset Ins Non Quote: 18.50 – 20.10
Spot Rate : 1.6000
Average : 1.0771

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 18.50
Evaluated at bid price : 18.50
Bid-YTW : 7.49 %

CU.PR.H Perpetual-Discount Quote: 20.57 – 22.62
Spot Rate : 2.0500
Average : 1.6684

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 20.57
Evaluated at bid price : 20.57
Bid-YTW : 6.41 %

BIP.PR.F FixedReset Disc Quote: 21.10 – 21.94
Spot Rate : 0.8400
Average : 0.5711

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 21.10
Evaluated at bid price : 21.10
Bid-YTW : 7.45 %

BN.PF.G FixedReset Disc Quote: 16.40 – 17.13
Spot Rate : 0.7300
Average : 0.4726

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-16
Maturity Price : 16.40
Evaluated at bid price : 16.40
Bid-YTW : 8.73 %

MFC.PR.J To Be Extended

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023

Manulife Financial Corporation has announced (on 2023-1-31):

that it does not intend to exercise its right to redeem all or any of its currently outstanding 8,000,000 Non-cumulative Rate Reset Class 1 Shares Series 11 (the “Series 11 Preferred Shares”) (TSX: MFC.PR.J) on March 19, 2023. As a result, subject to certain conditions described in the prospectus supplement dated November 27, 2012 relating to the issuance of the Series 11 Preferred Shares (the “Prospectus”), the holders of the Series 11 Preferred Shares have the right, at their option, to convert all or part of their Series 11 Preferred Shares on a one-for-one basis into Non-cumulative Floating Rate Class 1 Shares Series 12 of Manulife (the “Series 12 Preferred Shares”) on March 19, 2023. A formal notice of the right to convert Series 11 Preferred Shares into Series 12 Preferred Shares will be sent to the registered holders of the Series 11 Preferred Shares in accordance with the share conditions of the Series 11 Preferred Shares. Holders of Series 11 Preferred Shares are not required to elect to convert all or any part of their Series 11 Preferred Shares into Series 12 Preferred Shares. Holders who do not exercise their right to convert their Series 11 Preferred Shares into Series 12 Preferred Shares on such date will retain their Series 11 Preferred Shares, unless automatically converted in accordance with the conditions below.

The foregoing conversion right is subject to the conditions that: (i) if, after March 6, 2023, Manulife determines that there would be less than 1,000,000 Series 11 Preferred Shares outstanding on March 19, 2023, then all remaining Series 11 Preferred Shares will automatically be converted into an equal number of Series 12 Preferred Shares on March 19, 2023, and (ii) alternatively, if, after March 6, 2023, Manulife determines that there would be less than 1,000,000 Series 12 Preferred Shares outstanding on March 19, 2023, then no Series 11 Preferred Shares will be converted into Series 12 Preferred Shares. In either case, Manulife will give written notice to that effect to any registered holders of Series 11 Preferred Shares affected by the preceding minimums on or before March 13, 2023.

The dividend rate applicable to the Series 11 Preferred Shares for the 5-year period commencing on March 20, 2023, and ending on March 19, 2028, and the dividend rate applicable to the Series 12 Preferred Shares for the 3-month period commencing on March 20, 2023, and ending on June 19, 2023, will be determined and announced by way of a news release on February 21, 2023. Manulife will also give written notice of these dividend rates to the registered holders of Series 11 Preferred Shares.

Beneficial owners of Series 11 Preferred Shares who wish to exercise their right of conversion should instruct their broker or other nominee to exercise such right before 5:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on March 6, 2023. Conversion inquiries should be directed to Manulife’s Registrar and Transfer Agent, TSX Trust Company, at 1‑800-783-9495.

Subject to certain conditions described in the Prospectus, Manulife may redeem the Series 11 Preferred Shares, in whole or in part, on March 19, 2028 and on March 19 every five years thereafter and may redeem the Series 12 Preferred Shares, in whole or in part, after March 19, 2023.

The Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”) has conditionally approved the listing of the Series 12 Preferred Shares effective upon conversion. Listing of the Series 12 Preferred Shares is subject to Manulife fulfilling all the listing requirements of the TSX and, upon approval, the Series 12 Preferred Shares will be listed on the TSX under the trading symbol “MFC.PR.S”.

MFC.PR.J was issued as a FixedReset, 4.00%+261 that commenced trading 2012-12-4 after being announced 2012-11-27. After the 2018 notice of extension it reset to 4.731%; I recommended against conversion; and there was no conversion. The issue is tracked by HIMIPref™ and is assigned to the FixedReset (Discount) sub-index.

Thanks to Assiduous Reader adp4646 for bringing this to my attention.

February 15, 2023

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023

There was another jump in yields today:

Financial markets have upped their bets on additional rate hikes from the Bank of Canada and U.S. Federal Reserve following blowout employment reports in both countries and higher-than-expected inflation data from the United States.

This amounts to a U-turn for bond traders and investors, who spent much of January and early February doubting the resolve of central bankers in both countries to keep interest rates at highly restrictive levels through 2023.

Interest rate swaps, which capture market expectations about future rate decisions, have gone from pricing in two rate cuts by the Bank of Canada before the end of the year, to pricing in another rate hike in July and no rate cuts until 2024. That would bring the bank’s benchmark rate to 4.75 per cent.

In the U.S., markets now see the Fed increasing its benchmark interest rate to a peak of 5.25 per cent by July, a quarter-point higher than expected two weeks ago.

But people are still buying things:

The S&P 500 ended higher on Wednesday after stronger-than-expected retail sales data offered evidence of resilience in the U.S. economy, but gains were capped as investors worried about more interest rate hikes by Federal Reserve in the months ahead. Canada’s main stock index eked out marginal gains.

A Commerce Department report showed U.S. retail sales surged 3% in January as purchases of motor vehicles and other goods pushed the number well past the 1.8% estimate from economists polled by Reuters.

But not houses:

Canada’s housing downturn deepened further in January, with sales hitting their lowest level since the 2009 Great Recession and home prices declining for the 11th straight month.

The volume of home resales fell 3 per cent from December to January after removing seasonal influences. That was the lowest level for January in 14 years, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association. The home price index, which excludes sales of highly priced properties, fell to $714,700 in January, down 1.9 per cent from December. The index is 12.6 per cent lower than a year ago and 15 per cent below last February’s peak values.

More homeowners put their properties on the market, with new listings increasing 3.3 per cent last month. CREA said this could be the start of more activity heading into spring, which is traditionally the busiest period for home sales.

GOC-5 now stands at 3.45%.

PerpetualDiscounts now yield 6.05%, equivalent to 7.86% interest at the standard equivalency factor of 1.3x. Long corporates yielded 5.06% on 2023-2-10 and since then the closing price has changed from 15.03 to 14.82, a decline of 140bp in price, with a Duration of 12.32 (BMO doesn’t specify whether this is Macaulay or Modified Duration; I will assume Modified) which implies an increase in yield of about 11bp since 2/10 to 5.17%, so the pre-tax interest-equivalent spread (in this context, the “Seniority Spread”) has narrowed to about 270bp from the 285bp reported February 8.

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 -0.4458 % 2,575.6
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.4458 % 4,940.0
Floater 8.75 % 8.91 % 61,197 10.39 2 -0.4458 % 2,846.9
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.3704 % 3,419.6
SplitShare 4.92 % 6.52 % 57,926 2.76 7 -0.3704 % 4,083.7
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.3704 % 3,186.3
Perpetual-Premium 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.8941 % 2,836.3
Perpetual-Discount 6.01 % 6.05 % 74,694 13.81 37 -0.8941 % 3,092.8
FixedReset Disc 5.29 % 7.29 % 88,294 12.27 59 0.1872 % 2,304.7
Insurance Straight 5.88 % 6.03 % 93,064 13.78 20 -0.9683 % 3,053.2
FloatingReset 9.69 % 10.16 % 38,485 9.33 2 0.2498 % 2,606.2
FixedReset Prem 6.33 % 6.38 % 195,702 4.02 2 0.1972 % 2,396.1
FixedReset Bank Non 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.1872 % 2,355.9
FixedReset Ins Non 5.21 % 7.00 % 48,621 12.50 14 0.6351 % 2,475.8
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
CU.PR.H Perpetual-Discount -9.18 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 20.57
Evaluated at bid price : 20.57
Bid-YTW : 6.41 %
BN.PF.C Perpetual-Discount -7.30 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 18.40
Evaluated at bid price : 18.40
Bid-YTW : 6.71 %
IFC.PR.F Insurance Straight -6.36 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 20.75
Evaluated at bid price : 20.75
Bid-YTW : 6.50 %
CU.PR.E Perpetual-Discount -3.39 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 20.21
Evaluated at bid price : 20.21
Bid-YTW : 6.09 %
BN.PR.N Perpetual-Discount -2.06 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 19.00
Evaluated at bid price : 19.00
Bid-YTW : 6.36 %
GWO.PR.P Insurance Straight -2.05 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 21.75
Evaluated at bid price : 22.00
Bid-YTW : 6.23 %
PVS.PR.K SplitShare -1.98 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2029-05-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 22.25
Bid-YTW : 6.84 %
IFC.PR.K Perpetual-Discount -1.81 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 21.38
Evaluated at bid price : 21.70
Bid-YTW : 6.13 %
MFC.PR.K FixedReset Ins Non -1.67 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 19.40
Evaluated at bid price : 19.40
Bid-YTW : 7.22 %
CU.PR.G Perpetual-Discount -1.61 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 19.00
Evaluated at bid price : 19.00
Bid-YTW : 5.95 %
FTS.PR.F Perpetual-Discount -1.59 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 20.42
Evaluated at bid price : 20.42
Bid-YTW : 6.03 %
MFC.PR.C Insurance Straight -1.39 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 19.87
Evaluated at bid price : 19.87
Bid-YTW : 5.77 %
CU.PR.J Perpetual-Discount -1.33 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 19.96
Evaluated at bid price : 19.96
Bid-YTW : 5.98 %
GWO.PR.T Insurance Straight -1.32 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 21.64
Evaluated at bid price : 21.64
Bid-YTW : 6.05 %
FTS.PR.G FixedReset Disc 1.21 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 18.45
Evaluated at bid price : 18.45
Bid-YTW : 7.38 %
BN.PF.B FixedReset Disc 1.24 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 17.90
Evaluated at bid price : 17.90
Bid-YTW : 8.29 %
BIP.PR.E FixedReset Disc 2.22 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 22.27
Evaluated at bid price : 23.00
Bid-YTW : 6.95 %
MFC.PR.M FixedReset Ins Non 2.32 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 18.51
Evaluated at bid price : 18.51
Bid-YTW : 7.48 %
MFC.PR.L FixedReset Ins Non 2.87 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 17.93
Evaluated at bid price : 17.93
Bid-YTW : 7.56 %
MFC.PR.N FixedReset Ins Non 2.97 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 18.01
Evaluated at bid price : 18.01
Bid-YTW : 7.54 %
CM.PR.Q FixedReset Disc 3.09 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 20.00
Evaluated at bid price : 20.00
Bid-YTW : 7.04 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
PWF.PR.K Perpetual-Discount 69,607 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 20.96
Evaluated at bid price : 20.96
Bid-YTW : 5.97 %
RY.PR.M FixedReset Disc 50,000 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 19.00
Evaluated at bid price : 19.00
Bid-YTW : 7.14 %
GWO.PR.T Insurance Straight 43,945 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 21.64
Evaluated at bid price : 21.64
Bid-YTW : 6.05 %
BMO.PR.T FixedReset Disc 42,950 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 17.96
Evaluated at bid price : 17.96
Bid-YTW : 7.51 %
CU.PR.G Perpetual-Discount 41,520 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 19.00
Evaluated at bid price : 19.00
Bid-YTW : 5.95 %
TD.PF.J FixedReset Disc 37,602 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 22.40
Evaluated at bid price : 23.25
Bid-YTW : 6.49 %
There were 17 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
MFC.PR.Q FixedReset Ins Non Quote: 21.30 – 25.65
Spot Rate : 4.3500
Average : 2.4327

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 21.30
Evaluated at bid price : 21.30
Bid-YTW : 7.00 %

FTS.PR.K FixedReset Disc Quote: 17.18 – 20.50
Spot Rate : 3.3200
Average : 1.8233

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 17.18
Evaluated at bid price : 17.18
Bid-YTW : 7.71 %

BN.PF.C Perpetual-Discount Quote: 18.40 – 20.05
Spot Rate : 1.6500
Average : 1.0016

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 18.40
Evaluated at bid price : 18.40
Bid-YTW : 6.71 %

IFC.PR.F Insurance Straight Quote: 20.75 – 22.50
Spot Rate : 1.7500
Average : 1.1110

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 20.75
Evaluated at bid price : 20.75
Bid-YTW : 6.50 %

CU.PR.H Perpetual-Discount Quote: 20.57 – 22.40
Spot Rate : 1.8300
Average : 1.2501

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 20.57
Evaluated at bid price : 20.57
Bid-YTW : 6.41 %

GWO.PR.P Insurance Straight Quote: 22.00 – 22.79
Spot Rate : 0.7900
Average : 0.5033

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-15
Maturity Price : 21.75
Evaluated at bid price : 22.00
Bid-YTW : 6.23 %

T+1 Settlement is Coming!

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023

The SEC has announced:

The Securities and Exchange Commission today adopted rule changes to shorten the standard settlement cycle for most broker-dealer transactions in securities from two business days after the trade date (T+2) to one (T+1). The final rule is designed to benefit investors and reduce the credit, market, and liquidity risks in securities transactions faced by market participants.

“I support this rulemaking because it will reduce latency, lower risk, and promote efficiency as well as greater liquidity in the markets,” said SEC Chair Gary Gensler. “Today’s adoption addresses one of the four areas the staff recommended the Commission address in response to the meme stock events of 2021. Taken together, these amendments will make our market plumbing more resilient, timely, orderly, and efficient.”

In addition to shortening the standard settlement cycle, the final rules will improve the processing of institutional trades. Specifically, the final rules will require a broker-dealer to either enter into written agreements or establish, maintain, and enforce written policies and procedures reasonably designed to ensure the completion of allocations, confirmations, and affirmations as soon as technologically practicable and no later than the end of trade date. The final rules also require registered investment advisers to make and keep records of the allocations, confirmations, and affirmations for certain securities transactions.

Further, the final rules add a new requirement to facilitate straight-through processing, which applies to certain types of clearing agencies that provide central matching services. The final rules will require central matching service providers to establish, implement, maintain, and enforce new policies and procedures reasonably designed to facilitate straight-through processing and require them to submit an annual report to the Commission that describes and quantifies progress with respect to straight-through processing.

The adopting release is published on SEC.gov and will be published in the Federal Register. The final rules will become effective 60 days after publication in the Federal Register. The compliance date for the final rules is May 28, 2024.

This is wonderful news, albeit of more interest to institutional investors and their fund managers than to retail. Back in my Canada bond trading days, it was unusual, but not unknown, for clients of the firm to have trades totalling 100-million per side (buy and sell) with a single dealer. Say the market has moved by a buck after trade time but before settlement. Then one side has a loss of 1-million odd, and the other side has a gain of about the same amount. Now say the dealer goes bust before the trade gets settled. The losing side of the trade would settle, but the winning side … maybe. When Confederation Life went bust in the nineties, if you had an outstanding FX trade that you were losing money on, it settled. If you were winning … get in line, buddy! So this is a risk that is reduced by faster settlement.

There are implications for retail, though … everybody remembers the Robin Hood / Meme Stock problem, when Robin Hood suddenly started getting very fussy about what orders they would accept … and although you’ll find lots of vitriol on the web directed at them by newbie retails, you’ll also learn that few of these guys understood the problem: the problem was that clearing corporations demand collateral to mitigate the settlement risk described above:

New York markets had just fired up, and the investing world was tuning in for Thursday’s episode of the continuing drama: Legions of Robinhood Markets investors versus hedge-fund Goliaths.

But within minutes, a shock wave invisible to the outside world rattled the mechanics of Wall Street — sending Robinhood rushing for more than $1 billion of additional cash. The stock market’s central clearing hub had demanded large sums of collateral from brokerages including Robinhood that for weeks had facilitated spectacular jumps in shares such as GameStop Corp.

The Silicon Valley venture with the wildly popular no-fee trading app came to a crossroads. It reined in the risk to itself by banning certain trades and unwinding client bets — igniting an outcry from customers and even U.S. political leaders. By that night, word was emerging that Robinhood had raised more than $1 billion from existing investors and drawn hundreds of millions more from bank credit lines to weather the storm.

The question is whether such critics will dig into the industry’s inner workings, where pressure mounted on Robinhood and other firms to limit certain trades. That would put a rare spotlight on arcane parts of the market designed to prevent catastrophe, such as the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.

One key consideration for brokers, particularly around high-flying and volatile stocks like GameStop, is in the money they must put up with the DTCC while waiting a few days for stock transactions to settle. Those outlays, which behave like margin in a brokerage account, can create a cash crunch on volatile days, say when GameStop falls from $483 to $112 like it did at one point during Thursday’s session.

The trouble on Thursday began around 10 a.m., when after days of turbulence, the DTCC demanded significantly more collateral from member brokers, according to two people familiar with the matter.

A spokesman for the DTCC wouldn’t specify how much it required from specific firms but said that by the end of the day industrywide collateral requirements jumped to $33.5 billion, up from $26 billion.

Brokerage executives rushed to figure out how to come up with the funds. Robinhood’s reaction drew the most public attention, but the firm wasn’t alone in limiting trading of stocks such as GameStop and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc.

In fact, Charles Schwab Corp.’s TD Ameritrade curbed transactions in both of those companies on Wednesday. Interactive Brokers Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley’s E*Trade took similar action Thursday.

So, faster settlement will alleviate, to a large degree, the amount of settlement risk there is in the system and, hopefully, reduce the chance of serious volatility freezing the markets.

There was a lot of self-congratulation. Chair Gary Gensler stated:

First, the amendments will shorten the standard settlement cycle by half, from two business days (“T+2”) to one business day (“T+1”). The amendments also will halve the settlement cycle for trades relating to initial public offerings, from T+4 to T+2. As they say, time is money. Halving these settlement cycles will reduce the amount of margin that counterparties need to place with the clearinghouse. This lowers risk in the system and frees up liquidity elsewhere in the market.

Now, that’s not to say this change will be new; in fact, this change simply brings us back to the T+1 settlement cycle our markets used up until the 1920s. It also aligns with the T+1 cycle used in the $24 trillion Treasury market.

Today’s adoption addresses one of the four areas the staff recommended the Commission address in response to the meme stock events of 2021. Further, the implementation for these amendments will be set to after Memorial Day weekend (May 28, 2024). This implementation comes more than three years after key industry members first proposed shortening the settlement cycle, and a year and a quarter from now, providing sufficient time in my view for the transition. Further easing the transition, the implementation date will occur during a three-day holiday weekend.

Commissioner Jaime Lizárraga stated:

Why does this matter to the investing public? Because buyers and sellers of securities will receive their cash and securities a day earlier under T+1 than they do currently. And because market participants can allocate their capital more quickly and efficiently. Based on the public comments to the proposal, these benefits accrue to retail investors in particular.

Reducing the current settlement time in half will alleviate some of the downsides of the current T+2 cycle, such as counterparty, market, liquidity, credit, and other risks. A longer settlement time also requires risk management tools, such as margin requirements, that carry significant costs. Shortening the settlement cycle not only helps reduce these risks and costs but lowers volatility and makes our markets more fair and efficient.

The risks of longer settlement times are not just theoretical. In January 2021, unprecedented price volatility in so-called “meme stocks” challenged many retail investors’ faith in our in financial markets. Clearing agencies in equities and options experienced record volumes cleared. In the face of high volume and volatility, market utilities had to issue significant margin calls. In reaction to these margin calls, certain brokers restricted trading in some, or all, of the meme stocks. According to media reports, at least one broker’s decisions to halt trading came at the peak of the market and infuriated many retail investors. Investors have filed approximately 50 class action lawsuits claiming substantial harm from this broker’s trading halt.

Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw stated (with lots of valuable footnotes):

Specifically, a shorter settlement cycle should reduce the number of outstanding unsettled trades, reduce clearing agency margin requirements, and allow investors quicker access to their securities and funds. Longer settlement periods, on the other hand, are associated with increased counterparty default risk, market risk, liquidity risk, credit risk, and overall systemic risk.[7]

Commenters were overwhelmingly in favor of shortening the settlement cycle.[8] We received supportive comments from a broad range of stakeholders, including individual investors, investor advocates, clearing agencies, and broker-dealers.[9] Some commenters raised concerns regarding the proposed changes related to the processing of institutional trades,[10] firm commitment offerings,[11] and security-based swaps,[12] and the final rule reflects certain changes from the proposal in response to those comments. A number of commenters also raised concerns about the implementation timeline, which has been extended by several months from the proposed date to facilitate a smooth transition.[13] The new compliance date would provide market participants more than fifteen months to prepare for the transition.[14]

The proposal also included a request for comment on the possibility of settling trades by the end of the trade date, or what we call “T+0.” Some commenters highlighted challenges relating to multi-lateral netting, securities lending practices, and other issues.[15] However, many others expressed support for an eventual move to T+0.[16] While it is clear that T+0 will entail greater operational and technological challenges than the move to T+1, I agree with commenters that such a move may be both desirable and feasible in the future, and I look forward to working with my colleagues and stakeholders toward that important goal.[17]

Commissioner Mark T. Uyeda was a little bitter (bolding added):

While the net benefits of a shorter settlement cycle are clear, T + 1 can potentially increase some operational risks. There will be less time to address errors within the process and, in some circumstances, less time to deal with trading entities that are suddenly confronting massive and unexpected trading losses within the settlement cycle timeframe. There is also less time for regulators to identify and freeze the potential proceeds from potential frauds, such as, insider trading and market manipulation, before those proceeds exit our jurisdiction. These arguments and considerations, however, do not ultimately weigh against shortening the settlement cycle, but they provide reason for ensuring readiness among market participants. This speaks to the implementation date.

Ensuring a smooth transition will take significant investment and systems changes as well as operational and computational testing among broker-dealers, clearing firms, investment advisers, custodians, payment systems, and so on. Detailed planning is required, as is process adjustment, organizational change, and changes in the relationships among market participants. There is asymmetry in terms of costs and benefits—a smooth transition would provide net benefits for investors and U.S. markets to be accrued over the long-term in the future. On the other hand, the downside of a rough, turbulent transition could be steep, and could induce substantial harm in the short-run. That asymmetry cautions us to provide sufficient time to ensure a smooth transition.

Many comment letters have emphasized the need for more time than the Commission proposed.[5] Many have pointed to the 2024 Labor Day weekend as the implementation date. It would have the added advantage that Canada is also moving forward with T + 1 around the same time. Instead, the Commission appears to be ready to adopt May 28, 2024 as the implementation date.[6] In my view, we are in an imprudent rush away from a sensible transition date and, for that reason, I am unable to support the final rule.

Commissioner Hester M. Peirce also complained about implementation (bolding added):

I support the plan to move to T+1, but do not support the proposed timeline for making this change. Shortening the settlement cycle is a way to remove some risk from our markets. Mandating that the change occur in May 2024, however, could pose risks of its own by forcing the transition before market participants are ready. I propose instead a September 3, 2024 implementation date. Let me explain why:

  • Although preferable to the proposed March 31, 2024 implementation date, the May 28, 2024 date is still too early. Shortening the settlement cycle by one business day is a big change with implications all across the market. We cannot afford a cavalier approach.
  • Many commenters called for a September 3, 2024 date to ensure that the transition would happen with minimal disruption to the markets.
  • Tuesday, September 3, 2024 is the first business day after the 3-day Labor Day weekend, and Canada, the only jurisdiction currently planning on moving with us to T+1, shares this 3-day weekend. The transition from T+3 to T+2 occurred successfully over Labor Day weekend in 2017.
  • This later date would give other foreign market participants the time to work out some of the challenges they will face from our transition to a shorter settlement cycle than they have in their markets.
  • The additional three months will allow more time for firm-specific and coordinated, industry-wide testing, which will make a smoother transition more likely.
  • The transition from T+2 to T+1 is likely to present numerous operational challenges—some of them more difficult than in the last transition—related to, among other things, pre- and post-trade processes, securities lending, foreign exchange transactions, and processing corporate actions.
  • The transition is happening at the same time the market is processing many other regulatory changes.

I do not have any questions for the staff, but do want to make one final plea to Chair Gensler. Why not adopt a September 3, 2024 compliance date? I will vote for the rule if you make this change.

February 14, 2023

Tuesday, February 14th, 2023

US inflation was complicated:

The price index was up 6.4 percent in January compared with a year earlier. That was a slight slowing from 6.5 percent in December, and is down notably from a peak of about 9 percent last summer. But compared with the previous month, prices climbed 0.4 percent after stripping out groceries and fuel — a rapid pace of growth that matched the increase in December.

The overall report shows that while the Federal Reserve has been receiving positive news on inflation, price increases are no longer relentlessly accelerating, the way they did for much of 2021 and the first half of 2022, it could be a long and bumpy road back to the 2 percent annual inflation gains that used to be normal.

Much of the inflation slowdown in recent months has come from a moderation in price increases for goods and commodities. After stripping those out, services inflation — which includes health care, restaurant meals, pedicures and other non-goods purchases — has remained unusually rapid and has shown little sign of slowing down.

That trend continued in January, with services prices excluding energy continuing to increase rapidly, partly owing to the jump in rental and other housing costs. A measure that Mr. Powell watches closely — one that tracks services and strips out housing in addition to food and gas — eased very slightly last month.

Monthly growth in food prices accelerated slightly in January, reversing a gradual decline seen in recent months, as the price of eggs, cookies and citrus fruits all rose.

Food prices grew 0.5 over the month, ticking up slightly compared with an increase of 0.4 percent in December. A price index for meats, poultry, fish and eggs increased in January, as did another for cereals and bakery products. An overall index for fruits and vegetables fell from the previous month, while an index for dairy products was unchanged.

The price of eggs was up 8.5 percent from the previous month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said, as an outbreak of avian influenza around the United States continues to cause egg prices to surge. However, other measures, like a market report compiled by the Agriculture Department, show that the price of eggs has been dropping sharply in recent months. The average price of large eggs dropped from more than $5 a carton earlier this year to less than $3 in February, the department said.

And the New York Fed released their Underlying Inflation Gauge:

  • The UIG “full data set” measure for January is currently estimated at 5.1%, a 0.3 percentage point decrease from the current estimate of the previous month.
  • The “prices-only” measure for January is currently estimated at 5.1%, a 0.3 percentage point decrease from the current estimate of the previous month.
  • The twelve-month change in the January CPI was +6.4%, a 0.1 percentage point decrease from the previous month.
    • -For January 2023, trend CPI inflation is estimated to be in the 4.2% to 5.1% range, a similar range to December, with a 0.3 percentage point decrease of both its lower and upper bound.
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 0.0743 % 2,587.1
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.0743 % 4,962.1
Floater 8.71 % 8.90 % 61,128 10.41 2 0.0743 % 2,859.7
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.0119 % 3,432.3
SplitShare 4.90 % 6.46 % 58,029 2.77 7 -0.0119 % 4,098.9
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.0119 % 3,198.1
Perpetual-Premium 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.2249 % 2,861.8
Perpetual-Discount 5.96 % 6.02 % 70,738 13.83 37 -0.2249 % 3,120.7
FixedReset Disc 5.30 % 7.31 % 88,434 12.28 59 0.2584 % 2,300.4
Insurance Straight 5.83 % 5.97 % 92,753 13.89 20 -0.2022 % 3,083.0
FloatingReset 9.72 % 10.24 % 35,613 9.27 2 0.1877 % 2,599.7
FixedReset Prem 6.35 % 6.37 % 198,741 4.03 2 1.1769 % 2,391.4
FixedReset Bank Non 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.2584 % 2,351.5
FixedReset Ins Non 5.25 % 7.04 % 49,324 12.48 14 0.7094 % 2,460.2
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
CIU.PR.A Perpetual-Discount -2.05 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 19.10
Evaluated at bid price : 19.10
Bid-YTW : 6.05 %
CCS.PR.C Insurance Straight -1.28 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 20.83
Evaluated at bid price : 20.83
Bid-YTW : 6.10 %
ELF.PR.G Perpetual-Discount -1.07 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 19.39
Evaluated at bid price : 19.39
Bid-YTW : 6.21 %
BN.PF.B FixedReset Disc -1.06 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 17.68
Evaluated at bid price : 17.68
Bid-YTW : 8.39 %
MFC.PR.Q FixedReset Ins Non 1.15 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 21.16
Evaluated at bid price : 21.16
Bid-YTW : 7.04 %
MFC.PR.M FixedReset Ins Non 1.23 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 18.09
Evaluated at bid price : 18.09
Bid-YTW : 7.65 %
PVS.PR.H SplitShare 1.26 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2027-02-28
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 24.10
Bid-YTW : 6.00 %
IFC.PR.G FixedReset Ins Non 1.36 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 21.39
Evaluated at bid price : 21.67
Bid-YTW : 6.85 %
TRP.PR.B FixedReset Disc 1.37 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 11.85
Evaluated at bid price : 11.85
Bid-YTW : 8.72 %
GWO.PR.T Insurance Straight 1.43 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 21.67
Evaluated at bid price : 21.93
Bid-YTW : 5.95 %
FTS.PR.G FixedReset Disc 1.45 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 18.23
Evaluated at bid price : 18.23
Bid-YTW : 7.47 %
BIP.PR.F FixedReset Disc 1.51 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 21.53
Evaluated at bid price : 21.53
Bid-YTW : 7.29 %
MFC.PR.K FixedReset Ins Non 1.70 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 19.73
Evaluated at bid price : 19.73
Bid-YTW : 7.10 %
SLF.PR.G FixedReset Ins Non 2.04 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 13.52
Evaluated at bid price : 13.52
Bid-YTW : 7.93 %
MFC.PR.F FixedReset Ins Non 2.20 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 13.50
Evaluated at bid price : 13.50
Bid-YTW : 7.84 %
TRP.PR.C FixedReset Disc 2.26 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 12.24
Evaluated at bid price : 12.24
Bid-YTW : 8.69 %
BIK.PR.A FixedReset Prem 2.59 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2024-03-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.00
Bid-YTW : 6.56 %
BN.PR.X FixedReset Disc 2.66 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 17.00
Evaluated at bid price : 17.00
Bid-YTW : 7.44 %
BN.PF.A FixedReset Disc 3.86 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 21.50
Evaluated at bid price : 21.50
Bid-YTW : 7.31 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
IAF.PR.I FixedReset Ins Non 189,498 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 22.77
Evaluated at bid price : 24.00
Bid-YTW : 6.36 %
CM.PR.S FixedReset Disc 104,800 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 22.80
Evaluated at bid price : 22.80
Bid-YTW : 6.43 %
TD.PF.A FixedReset Disc 92,000 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 18.00
Evaluated at bid price : 18.00
Bid-YTW : 7.49 %
RY.PR.Z FixedReset Disc 71,610 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 18.31
Evaluated at bid price : 18.31
Bid-YTW : 7.39 %
SLF.PR.G FixedReset Ins Non 49,750 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 13.52
Evaluated at bid price : 13.52
Bid-YTW : 7.93 %
BMO.PR.T FixedReset Disc 49,020 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 17.95
Evaluated at bid price : 17.95
Bid-YTW : 7.51 %
There were 23 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
TRP.PR.A FixedReset Disc Quote: 14.64 – 15.64
Spot Rate : 1.0000
Average : 0.5822

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 14.64
Evaluated at bid price : 14.64
Bid-YTW : 8.67 %

TD.PF.J FixedReset Disc Quote: 23.02 – 23.85
Spot Rate : 0.8300
Average : 0.5511

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 22.28
Evaluated at bid price : 23.02
Bid-YTW : 6.56 %

ELF.PR.G Perpetual-Discount Quote: 19.39 – 20.05
Spot Rate : 0.6600
Average : 0.4831

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 19.39
Evaluated at bid price : 19.39
Bid-YTW : 6.21 %

MFC.PR.B Insurance Straight Quote: 20.55 – 21.75
Spot Rate : 1.2000
Average : 1.0402

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 20.55
Evaluated at bid price : 20.55
Bid-YTW : 5.76 %

BN.PR.R FixedReset Disc Quote: 15.17 – 16.10
Spot Rate : 0.9300
Average : 0.7759

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 15.17
Evaluated at bid price : 15.17
Bid-YTW : 8.42 %

MFC.PR.M FixedReset Ins Non Quote: 18.09 – 18.80
Spot Rate : 0.7100
Average : 0.5737

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-14
Maturity Price : 18.09
Evaluated at bid price : 18.09
Bid-YTW : 7.65 %

DBRS: AQN Emerges Unscathed from Review-Developing

Tuesday, February 14th, 2023

Way back in October, 2021, DBRS announced:

placed all the ratings of Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. (APUC or the Company) Under Review with Developing Implications. On October 26, 2021, APUC announced an agreement with American Electric Power (AEP) to acquire Kentucky Power Company (Kentucky Power) and AEP Kentucky Transmission Company, Inc. (Kentucky TransCo) for a total purchase price of USD 2.846 billion, including the assumption of approximately USD 1.221 billion in debt (the Acquisition). Kentucky Power is a state rate-regulated electricity generation, distribution, and transmission utility operating within the Commonwealth of Kentucky, serving approximately 228,000 active customer connections and operating under a cost-of-service framework. Kentucky TransCo is an electricity transmission business operating in the Kentucky portion of the transmission infrastructure that is part of the Pennsylvania–New Jersey–Maryland regional transmission organization. The Acquisition is expected to close mid-2022, subject to regulatory approvals.

DBRS Morningstar views this acquisition as a positive development from a business risk perspective because of the following factors: (1) a significant increase in APUC’s low-risk regulated assets with a total consolidated rate base expected to increase to approximately USD 9 billion from USD 6.8 billion, which would reflect a 32% increase upon closing. After the completion of the Acquisition, DBRS Morningstar expects APUC to generate over 75% (currently 66%) of its consolidated cash flow from stable regulated operations and the remainder from long-term contracted nonregulated generation; (2) an expected improvement in jurisdictional diversification with the addition of Kentucky and the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Kentucky has a reasonable cost-of-service regulatory framework with acceleration of capital recovery and a reasonably regulated return on equity; (3) an expected improvement of capital expenditure planning, which should add more flexibility with the Acquisition.

Notwithstanding these potentially positive impacts, the Under Review with Developing Implications rating action reflects some uncertainties associated with APUC’s financing plan. To finance the Acquisition, APUC intends to issue up to USD 750 million common equity through a bought deal with the banks. APUC expects to finance the remainder in the amount of approximately USD 875 million with a combination of hybrid debt financing, equity units, and proceeds from the sale of the non-regulated assets/investments. DBRS Morningstar has reviewed APUC’s financing plan and is of the view that its current plan (if the hybrid debt is issued out of APUC) could increase APUC’s nonconsolidated leverage. The magnitude of the increase will depend on the amount of the hybrid debt to be issued. DBRS Morningstar notes that if APUC’s nonconsolidated debt-to-capital (as calculated by DBRS Morningstar) rises significantly above 20% following the issuance of the hybrid debt, then a negative rating action could be taken.

They have now announced:

DBRS Limited (DBRS Morningstar) removed the Issuer Rating and Preferred Shares rating of Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. (APUC or the Company) from Under Review with Developing Implications and confirmed the ratings at BBB and Pfd-3, respectively. Both trends are Stable. The rating confirmations reflect DBRS Morningstar’s expectations that the proposed acquisition of Kentucky Power Company and AEP Kentucky Transmission Company, Inc. from American Electric Power (AEP) (collectively, KPC Acquisition) will close in the first half of 2023, and the financing of the KPC Acquisition will be implemented as currently planned. Following APUC’s January 2023 investor call and the latest information provided by the Company, DBRS Morningstar believes that even if the KPC Acquisition does not close, DBRS Morningstar does not expect a materially negative impact on APUC’s current credit profile.

DBRS Morningstar estimates EBITDA contribution from the low-risk regulated utility group accounted for approximately 70% of APUC’s consolidated 2022 EBITDA and the remainder from the power renewable generation group. Following the KPC Acquisition, DBRS Morningstar expects EBITDA contribution from the regulated utility group to increase to between 75% and 80%, significantly strengthening the business risk profile for APUC. Based on APUC’s current financing plan over the next few years, including the financing of the KPC Acquisition, DBRS Morningstar expects APUC to maintain solid consolidated metrics, as well as its nonconsolidated debt-to-capital ratio at a reasonable level (at around 20%) on a sustainable basis. DBRS Morningstar, however, could take a negative rating action if (1) APUC’s consolidated metrics weaken materially from the current level, or (2) its nonconsolidated debt-to-capital ratio increases significantly from the expected levels on a sustained basis, or (3) there is a significant increase in consolidated business risk profile.

Affected issues are AQN.PR.A and AQN.PR.D.

February 13, 2023

Monday, February 13th, 2023

The New York Fed has released the latest Survey of Consumer Expectations:

The main findings from the January 2023 Survey are:

Inflation

  • * Median inflation expectations remained unchanged at the year-ahead horizon, decreased by 0.3 percentage point at the three-year-ahead horizon, and increased by 0.1 percentage point at the five-year-ahead horizon, to 5.0%, 2.7% and 2.5%, respectively.
  • * Median inflation uncertainty—or the uncertainty expressed regarding future inflation outcomes—remained unchanged at the one-year horizon but increased slightly at the three- and five-year horizons.
  • * Median home price growth expectations declined by 0.2 percentage point to 1. 1% in January, the second lowest reading since May 2020. The decrease was more pronounced among respondents who are older than 60 and respondents who live in the Northeast.
  • * Median year-ahead expected price changes increased by 1.0 percentage point for gas (to 5.1%), 1.4 percentage point for food (to 9.0%), and 0.1 percentage point for the cost of college education (to 9.3%) . The median expected change in the cost of rent and medical care remained unchanged at 9.6% and 9.7% , respectively.

Labor Market

  • * Median one-year-ahead expected earnings growth remained unchanged at 3.0% in January. The series has been moving between a narrow range of 2.8% to 3.0% since September 2021.

I have attracted some opprobrium for my habit of referring to those whose investment strategies have been noisily inconvenienced by the cancellation of the RRB programme as ‘rich people’. I should correct myself and refer to them as ‘whining, privileged and oblivious rich people’:

A quarter of Canadians wouldn’t be able to come up with $500 to cover an unexpected expense, according to a new Statistics Canada survey that also found people who are younger and racialized report higher levels of financial stress than those who are older and non-racialized.

Worry about housing-related expenses, including rent, appeared to be driving the divide. More than half of survey respondents between the ages of 15 and 34 said they were “very concerned” that they would be unable to keep up with housing costs, compared with just over a quarter of respondents aged 65 and over.

Nearly three quarters of Black respondents, and 65 per cent of South Asians, shared the same sentiment, compared with less than 40 per cent of non-racialized respondents.

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 0.4856 % 2,585.2
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.4856 % 4,958.4
Floater 8.72 % 8.88 % 49,138 10.43 2 0.4856 % 2,857.5
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.1076 % 3,432.7
SplitShare 4.90 % 6.42 % 57,228 2.77 7 0.1076 % 4,099.4
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.1076 % 3,198.5
Perpetual-Premium 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.4011 % 2,868.3
Perpetual-Discount 5.94 % 6.01 % 71,484 13.84 37 0.4011 % 3,127.7
FixedReset Disc 5.32 % 7.37 % 88,129 12.27 59 -0.0209 % 2,294.5
Insurance Straight 5.81 % 6.00 % 85,816 13.83 20 -0.1245 % 3,089.3
FloatingReset 9.74 % 10.25 % 34,317 9.27 2 0.4083 % 2,594.9
FixedReset Prem 6.42 % 6.33 % 197,191 4.03 2 0.7233 % 2,363.6
FixedReset Bank Non 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.0209 % 2,345.4
FixedReset Ins Non 5.28 % 7.12 % 51,117 12.45 14 0.1125 % 2,442.9
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
CM.PR.Q FixedReset Disc -1.42 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 19.40
Evaluated at bid price : 19.40
Bid-YTW : 7.25 %
CU.PR.C FixedReset Disc -1.33 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 20.01
Evaluated at bid price : 20.01
Bid-YTW : 6.99 %
TRP.PR.B FixedReset Disc -1.27 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 11.69
Evaluated at bid price : 11.69
Bid-YTW : 8.82 %
BIP.PR.A FixedReset Disc -1.22 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 18.65
Evaluated at bid price : 18.65
Bid-YTW : 8.66 %
SLF.PR.G FixedReset Ins Non -1.12 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 13.25
Evaluated at bid price : 13.25
Bid-YTW : 8.08 %
RY.PR.N Perpetual-Discount -1.08 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 22.52
Evaluated at bid price : 22.80
Bid-YTW : 5.38 %
BN.PF.I FixedReset Disc -1.08 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 22.33
Evaluated at bid price : 23.00
Bid-YTW : 7.35 %
MFC.PR.K FixedReset Ins Non -1.02 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 19.40
Evaluated at bid price : 19.40
Bid-YTW : 7.22 %
GWO.PR.L Insurance Straight -1.01 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 23.21
Evaluated at bid price : 23.51
Bid-YTW : 6.09 %
IFC.PR.K Perpetual-Discount 1.05 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 21.79
Evaluated at bid price : 22.10
Bid-YTW : 6.02 %
GWO.PR.H Insurance Straight 1.12 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 20.75
Evaluated at bid price : 20.75
Bid-YTW : 5.94 %
SLF.PR.H FixedReset Ins Non 1.28 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 15.82
Evaluated at bid price : 15.82
Bid-YTW : 7.78 %
BN.PF.B FixedReset Disc 1.30 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 17.87
Evaluated at bid price : 17.87
Bid-YTW : 8.30 %
BIK.PR.A FixedReset Prem 1.33 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 23.91
Evaluated at bid price : 24.37
Bid-YTW : 7.47 %
MIC.PR.A Perpetual-Discount 1.49 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 20.40
Evaluated at bid price : 20.40
Bid-YTW : 6.74 %
CIU.PR.A Perpetual-Discount 2.09 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 19.50
Evaluated at bid price : 19.50
Bid-YTW : 5.92 %
MFC.PR.J FixedReset Ins Non 2.30 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 21.81
Evaluated at bid price : 22.25
Bid-YTW : 6.77 %
CU.PR.E Perpetual-Discount 3.41 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 20.90
Evaluated at bid price : 20.90
Bid-YTW : 5.88 %
CU.PR.H Perpetual-Discount 10.84 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 22.53
Evaluated at bid price : 22.80
Bid-YTW : 5.76 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
IFC.PR.A FixedReset Ins Non 53,300 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 18.40
Evaluated at bid price : 18.40
Bid-YTW : 6.88 %
TRP.PR.A FixedReset Disc 30,800 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 14.60
Evaluated at bid price : 14.60
Bid-YTW : 8.69 %
BN.PR.N Perpetual-Discount 21,400 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 19.35
Evaluated at bid price : 19.35
Bid-YTW : 6.24 %
RY.PR.Z FixedReset Disc 19,700 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 18.29
Evaluated at bid price : 18.29
Bid-YTW : 7.40 %
TD.PF.A FixedReset Disc 14,500 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 17.96
Evaluated at bid price : 17.96
Bid-YTW : 7.51 %
CM.PR.S FixedReset Disc 13,900 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 22.76
Evaluated at bid price : 22.76
Bid-YTW : 6.44 %
There were 6 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
MFC.PR.B Insurance Straight Quote: 20.53 – 21.87
Spot Rate : 1.3400
Average : 0.8650

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 20.53
Evaluated at bid price : 20.53
Bid-YTW : 5.77 %

PWF.PF.A Perpetual-Discount Quote: 19.35 – 20.44
Spot Rate : 1.0900
Average : 0.7199

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 19.35
Evaluated at bid price : 19.35
Bid-YTW : 5.87 %

MFC.PR.N FixedReset Ins Non Quote: 17.40 – 18.40
Spot Rate : 1.0000
Average : 0.7385

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 17.40
Evaluated at bid price : 17.40
Bid-YTW : 7.80 %

CM.PR.Q FixedReset Disc Quote: 19.40 – 20.50
Spot Rate : 1.1000
Average : 0.8886

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 19.40
Evaluated at bid price : 19.40
Bid-YTW : 7.25 %

TD.PF.L FixedReset Disc Quote: 24.00 – 24.57
Spot Rate : 0.5700
Average : 0.3662

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 23.52
Evaluated at bid price : 24.00
Bid-YTW : 6.80 %

BN.PF.F FixedReset Disc Quote: 18.15 – 18.80
Spot Rate : 0.6500
Average : 0.4472

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2053-02-13
Maturity Price : 18.15
Evaluated at bid price : 18.15
Bid-YTW : 8.30 %