Jobs, jobs, jobs! Canada’s economy added 378,000 new jobs in September, Statistics Canada says, almost all of which were full-time positions. September’s job gains mean that the job market is now within 720,000 positions of …
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October 8, 2020
HIMIPref™ Preferred IndicesThese values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref™ IndicesValues are provisional and are finalized monthly Index MeanCurrentYield(at bid) MedianYTW MedianAverageTradingValue MedianMod Dur(YTW) Issues Day’s Perf. Index Value Ratchet 0.00 % 0.00 …
October 7, 2020
PerpetualDiscounts now yield 5.04%, equivalent to 6.55% interest at the standard equivalency factor of 1.3x. Long corporates now yield 2.95%, so the pre-tax interest-equivalent spread (in this context, the “Seniority Spread”) has narrowed dramatically to …
October 6, 2020
HIMIPref™ Preferred IndicesThese values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref™ IndicesValues are provisional and are finalized monthly Index MeanCurrentYield(at bid) MedianYTW MedianAverageTradingValue MedianMod Dur(YTW) Issues Day’s Perf. Index Value Ratchet 0.00 % 0.00 …
October 5, 2020
HIMIPref™ Preferred IndicesThese values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref™ IndicesValues are provisional and are finalized monthly Index MeanCurrentYield(at bid) MedianYTW MedianAverageTradingValue MedianMod Dur(YTW) Issues Day’s Perf. Index Value Ratchet 0.00 % 0.00 …
MAPF Portfolio Composition : September, 2020
Turnover decreased in September to 8%. The fund’s trading will probably be higher in the future than has been normal for the past several years, since the extreme segmentation in the marketplace that I complained …
October 2, 2020
It’s a bit odd calling +661,000 a bad jobs number but here we are: Job growth slowed further in September, as fading government support and the failure to contain the coronavirus threatened to short-circuit the …
October 1, 2020
Sorry, this report will be delayed until the evening of October 2. Update, 2020-10-3: HIMIPref™ Preferred IndicesThese values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref™ IndicesValues are provisional and are finalized monthly Index MeanCurrentYield(at …
September 30, 2020
Click for Big TXPR closed at 582.42, up 1.42% on the day. Volume today was 3.48-million, highest of the past thirty days and well ahead of second-place September 9. CPD closed at 11.58, up 1.14% …
September 29, 2020
HIMIPref™ Preferred IndicesThese values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref™ IndicesValues are provisional and are finalized monthly Index MeanCurrentYield(at bid) MedianYTW MedianAverageTradingValue MedianMod Dur(YTW) Issues Day’s Perf. Index Value Ratchet 0.00 % 0.00 …