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 …
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February 15, 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 …
February 14, 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 …
February 13, 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 …
February 10, 2023
Jobs, jobs, jobs!: The labour market added 150,000 positions last month, following a gain of roughly 69,000 jobs in December, Statistics Canada said in a report published Friday. Financial analysts were expecting an increase of …
February 9, 2023
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 …
February 8, 2023
The BoC published its minutes: Until Wednesday, the Bank of Canada stood apart from peer central banks in not publishing some form of rate-decision meeting minutes. In a paper published last month, the bank’s own …
February 7, 2023
Powell gave a speech: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Tuesday the latest U.S. employment report showed the process for getting inflation back near the central bank’s 2 per cent target will take “quite …
February 6, 2023
The New York Fed released the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index (GSCPI): Estimates for January 2023 Global supply chain pressures decreased moderately in January and the index was revised upward in December. The largest contributing …
MAPF Portfolio Composition : January, 2023
Turnover was high at 14% in January, due to distortions in relative pricing. Market volumes have been very low for quite some time, having never really recovered from the usual summer decline in 2021. Sectoral …