Market Action

June 26, 2007

BCE issues were very disappointed to learn that Telus doesn’t want BCE and lost back much of their recent gains. Predict this, predict that, no information … what a life, eh? I’ll stick to analyzing cash-flows.

Note that these indices are experimental; the absolute and relative daily values are expected to change in the final version. In this version, index values are based at 1,000.0 on 2006-6-30
Index Mean Current Yield (at bid) Mean YTW Mean Average Trading Value Mean Mod Dur (YTW) Issues Day’s Perf. Index Value
Ratchet 5.68% 5.80% 28,411 14.38 2 -0.1100% 958.9
Fixed-Floater 5.50% 5.74% 140,272 14.48 7 -1.7177% 915.4
Floater 4.83% 1.82% 88,177 5.84 3 +0.0269% 1,048.7
Op. Retract 4.83% 3.92% 86,021 3.05 17 -0.0033% 1,020.2
Split-Share 5.03% 4.60% 156,131 4.04 15 -0.0881% 1,042.8
Interest Bearing 6.76% 7.08% 86,386 6.33 4 +0.6535% 1,029.2
Perpetual-Premium 5.42% 5.18% 150,239 8.35 34 +0.0182% 1,018.6
Perpetual-Discount 5.07% 5.11% 501,898 15.30 29 -0.0697% 963.9
Major Price Changes
Issue Index Change Notes
BCE.PR.R FixFloat -5.3555%  
BCE.PR.C FixFloat -2.3504%  
BCE.PR.A FixFloat -1.8065%  
CM.PR.J PerpetualDiscount -1.7301% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.16% based on a bid of 21.80 and a limitMaturity.
LFE.PR.A SplitShare -1.4205% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 4.49% based on a bid of 10.41 and a hardMaturity 2012-12-1 at 10.00
RY.PR.A PerpetualDiscount -1.4141% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.04% based on a bid of 22.31 and a limitMaturity.
BCE.PR.G FixFloat -1.2230%  
BSD.PR.A InterestBearing +1.0638% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 6.93% (as interest) based on a bid of 9.50 and a hardMaturity 2010-5-1 at 10.00
FIG.PR.A InterestBearing +1.8908% Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 6.80% (as interest) based on a bid of 9.70 and a hardMaturity 2014-12-31 at 10.00
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Volume Notes
CM.PR.A OpRet 503,325 Haven’t seen one of these for a while! Global crossed 249,300 for cash at 26.06, then crossed 249,300 for regular settlement at 25.72. Went ex-dividend today for 0.33125. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 4.66% based on a bid of 25.51 and a softMaturity 2011-7-30 at 25.00.
BPO.PR.F Scraps (would be OpRet, but there are credit concerns) 103,846 Desjardins crossed 100,000 at 25.75. //Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.52% based on a bid of 25.62 and a softMaturity 2013-3-30 at 25.00.
GWO.PR.G PerpetualPremium (for now!) 56,135 RBC crossed 50,000 at 24.70. Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.30% based on a bid of 24.60 and a limitMaturity.
BCE.PR.C FixFloat 31,705  
RY.PR.G PerpetualDiscount 25,500 Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.08% based on a bid of 22.50 and a limitMaturity.
SLF.PR.E PerpetualDiscount 23,900 Now with a pre-tax bid-YTW of 5.07% based on a bid of 22.30 and a limitMaturity

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

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