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Market Action

December 4, 2019

There was nothing particularly surprising in the Bank of Canada’s policy rate announcement this morning: The Bank of Canada today maintained its target for the overnight rate at 1 ¾ percent. The Bank Rate is …

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Issue Comments

December 3, 2019

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 …

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Market Action

December 2, 2019

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 …

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Market Action

November 29, 2019

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 …

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Market Action

November 28, 2019

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 …

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Market Action

November 27, 2019

PerpetualDiscounts now yield 5.39%, equivalent to 7.01% interest at the standard equivalency factor of 1.3x. Long corporates now yield 3.31%, so the pre-tax interest-equivalent spread (in this context, the “Seniority Spread”) has remained at 370bp, …

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Market Action

November 26, 2019

This is cool … a way for retail to earn stock loan income from Interactive Brokers: Earn extra income on the fully-paid shares of stock held in your account by joining IBKR’s Stock Yield Enhancement …

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Market Action

November 25, 2019

OK, so here’s some consumer advice … Back in July, I started getting notifications from Enbridge Gas that my on-line bill was ready … just a bit of spam, I thought. No problem, I’ll ignore …

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