September 2, 2022

Jobs, jobs, jobs!

The jobs report on Friday was the first of the summer to support the case Mr. Biden and his economic aides have been making for months: that the economy is beginning to step down from a high-growth, high-inflation expansion coming out of the pandemic recession but avoiding another recession.

The report showed the country added 315,000 jobs in August, down from 526,000 in July. The unemployment rate ticked up slightly, to 3.7 percent.

. The labor force participation rate grew by 0.3 percentage points in August, matching its highest rate in the recovery from the pandemic.

Average hourly earnings rose 0.3 percent in August, down from a gain of 0.5 percent in July. Over the past year, hourly earnings are up 5.2 percent.

Unfortunately for equities:

Europe’s energy crisis loomed larger Friday after Russian energy giant Gazprom said it couldn’t resume the supply of natural gas through a major pipeline to Germany for now. The company cited what it said was a need for urgent maintenance work to repair key components — in an announcement made just hours before it had been due to restart deliveries.

The Russian state-run energy company had shut down the Nord Stream 1 pipeline on Wednesday for what it said would be three days of maintenance.

It said in a social media post Friday evening that it had identified “malfunctions” of a turbine and added that the pipeline would not work unless those were eliminated.

and so:

Wall Street opened sharply higher after the August U.S. payrolls report showed stronger-than-expected hiring but a climb in the unemployment rate to 3.7% eased some concerns about the Federal Reserve being overly aggressive in raising interest rates as it attempts to bring down high inflation.

However, gains were erased after Gazprom, the state-controlled firm with a monopoly on Russian gas exports to Europe via pipeline which were due to restart on Saturday, said it could not safely restart deliveries until it had fixed an oil leak found in a vital turbine and did not give a new time frame.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 337.98 points, or 1.07%, to 31,318.44; the S&P 500 lost 42.59 points, or 1.07%, to 3,924.26; and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 154.26 points, or 1.31%, to 11,630.86.

Energy was the only major S&P sector to end the session in positive territory, up 1.81%.

All the three main indexes suffered their third straight weekly loss, as the Dow fell 2.99%, the S&P 500 declined 3.29% and the Nasdaq dropped 4.21%.

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 0.2307 % 2,505.4
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.2307 % 4,805.4
Floater 6.31 % 6.42 % 53,173 13.19 2 0.2307 % 2,769.4
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.0360 % 3,475.2
SplitShare 4.89 % 5.18 % 33,281 3.02 8 0.0360 % 4,150.1
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.0360 % 3,238.1
Perpetual-Premium 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.5336 % 2,821.9
Perpetual-Discount 6.04 % 6.21 % 61,485 13.57 35 -0.5336 % 3,077.2
FixedReset Disc 4.73 % 6.35 % 92,511 13.37 58 -0.0785 % 2,502.2
Insurance Straight 6.07 % 6.09 % 79,585 13.83 19 -0.5198 % 2,964.9
FloatingReset 7.59 % 7.74 % 37,642 11.74 2 -0.1546 % 2,621.7
FixedReset Prem 5.12 % 4.90 % 98,897 1.80 6 -0.2302 % 2,587.4
FixedReset Bank Non 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 -0.0785 % 2,557.7
FixedReset Ins Non 4.77 % 6.70 % 54,044 13.25 14 -1.3418 % 2,558.6
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
MFC.PR.N FixedReset Ins Non -15.49 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 18.00
Evaluated at bid price : 18.00
Bid-YTW : 7.35 %
CU.PR.J Perpetual-Discount -11.94 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 17.70
Evaluated at bid price : 17.70
Bid-YTW : 6.77 %
BMO.PR.W FixedReset Disc -4.43 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 20.50
Evaluated at bid price : 20.50
Bid-YTW : 6.50 %
BAM.PF.F FixedReset Disc -3.27 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 19.20
Evaluated at bid price : 19.20
Bid-YTW : 7.76 %
BIP.PR.A FixedReset Disc -2.75 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 19.45
Evaluated at bid price : 19.45
Bid-YTW : 8.09 %
TD.PF.C FixedReset Disc -2.68 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 20.73
Evaluated at bid price : 20.73
Bid-YTW : 6.46 %
BAM.PR.M Perpetual-Discount -1.73 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 19.36
Evaluated at bid price : 19.36
Bid-YTW : 6.26 %
GWO.PR.Q Insurance Straight -1.71 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 20.69
Evaluated at bid price : 20.69
Bid-YTW : 6.24 %
GWO.PR.S Insurance Straight -1.64 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 21.03
Evaluated at bid price : 21.03
Bid-YTW : 6.25 %
SLF.PR.E Insurance Straight -1.52 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 18.81
Evaluated at bid price : 18.81
Bid-YTW : 5.99 %
CM.PR.O FixedReset Disc -1.38 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 21.45
Evaluated at bid price : 21.45
Bid-YTW : 6.32 %
MFC.PR.B Insurance Straight -1.28 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 19.35
Evaluated at bid price : 19.35
Bid-YTW : 6.03 %
BAM.PF.D Perpetual-Discount -1.23 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 20.00
Evaluated at bid price : 20.00
Bid-YTW : 6.25 %
FTS.PR.J Perpetual-Discount -1.23 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 20.06
Evaluated at bid price : 20.06
Bid-YTW : 5.96 %
SLF.PR.D Insurance Straight -1.18 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 18.50
Evaluated at bid price : 18.50
Bid-YTW : 6.03 %
RY.PR.O Perpetual-Discount -1.17 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 23.35
Evaluated at bid price : 23.67
Bid-YTW : 5.20 %
GWO.PR.Y Insurance Straight -1.12 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 18.56
Evaluated at bid price : 18.56
Bid-YTW : 6.07 %
CU.PR.F Perpetual-Discount -1.10 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 18.95
Evaluated at bid price : 18.95
Bid-YTW : 5.98 %
CU.PR.G Perpetual-Discount -1.10 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 18.95
Evaluated at bid price : 18.95
Bid-YTW : 5.98 %
MFC.PR.Q FixedReset Ins Non -1.06 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 21.95
Evaluated at bid price : 22.50
Bid-YTW : 6.44 %
MFC.PR.C Insurance Straight -1.05 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 18.80
Evaluated at bid price : 18.80
Bid-YTW : 6.01 %
ELF.PR.F Perpetual-Discount -1.00 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 21.52
Evaluated at bid price : 21.78
Bid-YTW : 6.17 %
BAM.PF.B FixedReset Disc 1.00 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 20.20
Evaluated at bid price : 20.20
Bid-YTW : 7.24 %
BIP.PR.F FixedReset Disc 1.01 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 22.63
Evaluated at bid price : 23.08
Bid-YTW : 6.61 %
BAM.PR.X FixedReset Disc 1.23 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 18.10
Evaluated at bid price : 18.10
Bid-YTW : 6.97 %
PWF.PR.O Perpetual-Discount 1.30 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 23.14
Evaluated at bid price : 23.40
Bid-YTW : 6.27 %
GWO.PR.N FixedReset Ins Non 1.73 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 14.10
Evaluated at bid price : 14.10
Bid-YTW : 6.99 %
NA.PR.W FixedReset Disc 2.94 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 21.00
Evaluated at bid price : 21.00
Bid-YTW : 6.35 %
TD.PF.D FixedReset Disc 7.52 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 21.87
Evaluated at bid price : 22.15
Bid-YTW : 6.33 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
FTS.PR.J Perpetual-Discount 30,106 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 20.06
Evaluated at bid price : 20.06
Bid-YTW : 5.96 %
TD.PF.K FixedReset Disc 30,000 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 23.19
Evaluated at bid price : 23.70
Bid-YTW : 6.18 %
TD.PF.B FixedReset Disc 28,273 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 21.35
Evaluated at bid price : 21.35
Bid-YTW : 6.33 %
BAM.PF.D Perpetual-Discount 26,351 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 20.00
Evaluated at bid price : 20.00
Bid-YTW : 6.25 %
TRP.PR.C FixedReset Disc 17,441 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 13.35
Evaluated at bid price : 13.35
Bid-YTW : 7.85 %
BMO.PR.E FixedReset Disc 16,450 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 24.04
Evaluated at bid price : 24.45
Bid-YTW : 6.06 %
There were 4 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
MFC.PR.N FixedReset Ins Non Quote: 18.00 – 22.30
Spot Rate : 4.3000
Average : 2.7555

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 18.00
Evaluated at bid price : 18.00
Bid-YTW : 7.35 %

MFC.PR.L FixedReset Ins Non Quote: 18.45 – 24.35
Spot Rate : 5.9000
Average : 4.6532

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 18.45
Evaluated at bid price : 18.45
Bid-YTW : 7.16 %

CU.PR.J Perpetual-Discount Quote: 17.70 – 20.49
Spot Rate : 2.7900
Average : 1.6304

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 17.70
Evaluated at bid price : 17.70
Bid-YTW : 6.77 %

IFC.PR.K Perpetual-Discount Quote: 22.01 – 23.95
Spot Rate : 1.9400
Average : 1.2891

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 21.72
Evaluated at bid price : 22.01
Bid-YTW : 6.07 %

MFC.PR.M FixedReset Ins Non Quote: 19.13 – 22.00
Spot Rate : 2.8700
Average : 2.2958

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 19.13
Evaluated at bid price : 19.13
Bid-YTW : 7.06 %

BMO.PR.W FixedReset Disc Quote: 20.50 – 21.90
Spot Rate : 1.4000
Average : 0.9651

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2052-09-02
Maturity Price : 20.50
Evaluated at bid price : 20.50
Bid-YTW : 6.50 %

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