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March 14, 2018
PerpetualDiscounts now yield 5.42%, equivalent to 7.05% interest at the standard equivalency factor of 1.3x. Long corporates now yield about 3.90%, so the pre-tax interest-equivalent spread (in this context, the “Seniority Spread”) is now about …
March 13
Today’s gloom comes to us courtesy of Moody’s: Canada’s mountain of consumer debt is triggering multiple alarms about the threat to the country’s banks. Moody’s Investors Service joined the Bank for International Settlements and S&P …
March 5, 2018
Canadian consumer confidence took a hit: Economic sentiment cooled for a second straight month in February, according to polling by Nanos Research Group for Bloomberg News, with Canadians increasingly concerned about the sustainability of the …
MAPF Portfolio Composition : February, 2018
Turnover remained steady at about 7% in February. There is extreme segmentation in the marketplace, with OSFI’s NVCC rule changes in February 2011 having had the effect of splitting the formerly relatively homogeneous Straight Perpetual …
LCS.PR.A To Be Extended
Brompton Group has announced: Brompton Lifeco Split Corp. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that the board of directors has approved an extension of the maturity date of the Class A and Preferred shares of …
March 2, 2018
More trade-war chatter: World Trade Organization Director General Roberto Azevedo expressed concern at U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan for tariffs on steel and aluminum on Friday, an extremely rare intervention into a WTO member’s trade …
March 1, 2018
Let’s have a trade war! Canada is vowing to retaliate if U.S. President Donald Trump makes good on his pledge to impose steep tariffs on steel and aluminum producers — while holding out hope that …
February 28, 2018
PerpetualDiscounts now yield 5.43%, equivalent to 7.06% interest at the standard equivalency factor of 1.3x. Long corporates now yield a little over 3.90%, so the pre-tax interest-equivalent spread (in this context, the “Seniority Spread”) is …
February 27, 2018
The federal budget came out today: One major change is C$7.2 billion ($5.7 billion) less infrastructure spending through 2019, an amount that has been allocated to other departmental spending.…On a cumulative basis, including risk buffers …