March 19, 2012

Greek CDSs are being settled at 21.5%:

Sellers of credit-default swaps on Greece will have to pay as much as $2.5 billion to settle contracts triggered by the nation’s debt restructuring.

The settlement was determined after dealers agreed a final value for Greek bonds of 21.5 percent of face value at an auction, according to administrators Markit Group Ltd. and Creditex Group Inc., and is in line with where the notes have been trading.

Greek credit-default swaps are being settled after investors were forced to exchange their bonds at a loss in the biggest ever debt restructuring. The auction ends more than two years of speculation over whether the derivatives are reliable for insuring sovereign debt after European policy makers sought to prevent payouts on concern they’d worsen the region’s crisis.

OSFI has gone to the unprecedented step of issuing a news release regarding mortgage underwriting guidelines. Naturally, there is no meat at all in the release, but the referenced draft guidelines create the usual paperwork increase.

DBRS has imposed new website conditions:

SITE Lockdown – Public Users must register

So now there will be more moronic spam for me to delete every day. And I just got less inclined to be civil when somebody calls from DBRS. Oh, well.

I wrote a Letter to Toronto City Council regarding the Sheppard Avenue East subway.

It was a quiet day for the Canadian preferred share market, with PerpetualPremiums gaining 1bp, FixedResets flat and DeemedRetractibles losing 19bp. The Performance Highlights table is suitably short; volume was low.

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 0.5991 % 2,463.0
FixedFloater 4.54 % 3.93 % 38,170 17.39 1 0.5772 % 3,432.2
Floater 2.93 % 2.93 % 48,264 19.92 3 0.5991 % 2,659.4
OpRet 4.92 % 2.82 % 52,366 1.25 6 -0.0707 % 2,504.5
SplitShare 5.27 % -2.64 % 84,103 0.74 4 0.1994 % 2,680.3
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.0707 % 2,290.1
Perpetual-Premium 5.40 % 2.75 % 100,443 0.12 25 0.0140 % 2,215.1
Perpetual-Discount 5.11 % 5.09 % 189,382 15.25 7 -0.1591 % 2,421.0
FixedReset 5.05 % 2.97 % 194,293 2.19 67 -0.0023 % 2,385.2
Deemed-Retractible 4.96 % 3.93 % 199,262 2.88 46 -0.1884 % 2,301.7
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
NA.PR.M Deemed-Retractible -1.51 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2013-05-15
Maturity Price : 26.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.80
Bid-YTW : 3.51 %
MFC.PR.C Deemed-Retractible -1.09 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2022-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 23.51
Bid-YTW : 5.31 %
SLF.PR.D Deemed-Retractible -1.04 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2022-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 22.86
Bid-YTW : 5.60 %
BAM.PR.C Floater 1.13 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2042-03-19
Maturity Price : 17.85
Evaluated at bid price : 17.85
Bid-YTW : 2.93 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
TD.PR.E FixedReset 105,856 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2014-04-30
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 27.03
Bid-YTW : 2.68 %
BAM.PF.A FixedReset 59,706 Recent new issue.
YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2042-03-19
Maturity Price : 23.07
Evaluated at bid price : 24.92
Bid-YTW : 4.46 %
RY.PR.N FixedReset 42,788 Scotia crossed 39,900 at 26.75.
YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2014-02-24
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.71
Bid-YTW : 2.84 %
CM.PR.J Deemed-Retractible 35,156 ITG (who?) bought 19,800 from Nesbitt at 26.22.
YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2012-04-30
Maturity Price : 26.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.22
Bid-YTW : 2.01 %
BNS.PR.Z FixedReset 26,469 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2022-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.20
Bid-YTW : 3.27 %
MFC.PR.H FixedReset 25,928 Recent new issue.
YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2017-03-19
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.16
Bid-YTW : 4.55 %
There were 19 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
NA.PR.P FixedReset Quote: 27.16 – 27.80
Spot Rate : 0.6400
Average : 0.4320

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2014-02-15
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 27.16
Bid-YTW : 2.29 %

FBS.PR.C SplitShare Quote: 10.56 – 10.93
Spot Rate : 0.3700
Average : 0.2357

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2012-12-15
Maturity Price : 10.00
Evaluated at bid price : 10.56
Bid-YTW : -2.64 %

NA.PR.M Deemed-Retractible Quote: 26.80 – 27.10
Spot Rate : 0.3000
Average : 0.2250

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2013-05-15
Maturity Price : 26.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.80
Bid-YTW : 3.51 %

IAG.PR.E Deemed-Retractible Quote: 25.80 – 26.30
Spot Rate : 0.5000
Average : 0.4265

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2018-12-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.80
Bid-YTW : 5.43 %

PWF.PR.P FixedReset Quote: 25.77 – 26.04
Spot Rate : 0.2700
Average : 0.1967

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2042-03-19
Maturity Price : 23.50
Evaluated at bid price : 25.77
Bid-YTW : 3.22 %

RY.PR.I FixedReset Quote: 26.10 – 26.36
Spot Rate : 0.2600
Average : 0.1882

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2014-02-24
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 26.10
Bid-YTW : 2.84 %

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