Canadian inflation set another 30-year high: The Consumer Price Index rose 5.7 per cent in February from a year earlier, up from January’s 5.1-per-cent pace, Statistics Canada said Wednesday. It was the 11th consecutive month …
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March 15, 2022
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 …
March 14, 2022
The five-year Canada bond yield rocketted up to 1.95% today and Rob Carrick pointed out that preferreds are on sale … so of course the market went down. What a world! HIMIPref™ Preferred Indices These …
March 11, 2022
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 …
March 10, 2022
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 …
March 9, 2022
PerpetualDiscounts now yield 5.00%, equivalent to 6.50% interest at the standard equivalency factor of 1.3x. Long corporates now yield 3.93%, so the pre-tax interest-equivalent spread (in this context, the “Seniority Spread”) has narrowed slightly (and …
March 8, 2022
The ongoing slide in the TXPR index is perplexing; surely with inflation becoming more of a menace, the five-year bond yield (GOC-5) must be on the way up! This shouldn’t make much, if any, difference …
March 7, 2022
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 …
MAPF Portfolio Composition: February, 2022
Turnover improved to 11% in February. Market volumes have been very low for quite some time, having never really recovered from the usual summer decline. Sectoral distribution of the MAPF portfolio on February 28, 2022 …
March 4, 2022
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 …