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December 1, 2017

Well, the hardworking folks at FAIR Canada have finally released (some time after November 11, when I sent my still-unanswered eMail of inquiry) their Financial Statements for the Year Ended 2017-6-30 and they’re most interesting. …

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November 30, 2017

That’s it for another month! Not a bad one at all, TXPR up 70bp. HIMIPref™ Preferred IndicesThese values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref™ IndicesValues are provisional and are finalized monthly Index MeanCurrentYield(at …

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November 29, 2017

PerpetualDiscounts now yield 5.23%, equivalent to 6.80% interest at the standard equivalency factor of 1.3x. Long corporates now yield a little under 3.75%, so the pre-tax interest-equivalent spread (in this context, the “Seniority Spread”) is …

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November 28, 2017

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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November 27, 2017

Publication of the November 27 preferred share report has been delayed. I intend to post it shortly before publication of the November 28 report. Update, 2017-11-29, finally: HIMIPref™ Preferred IndicesThese values reflect the December 2008 …

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November 24, 2017

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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November 23, 2017

Chris Bourke of Bloomberg wrote a piece about Australia’s housing market that interested me because of Canada’s presence in the charts: Click for Big That represents the failure of Canada’s housing policy since 2006 – …

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November 22, 2017

PerpetualDiscounts now yield 5.23%, equivalent to 6.80% interest at the standard equivalency factor of 1.3x. Long corporates now yield about 3.80%, so the pre-tax, interest-equivalent spread (in this context, the “Seniority Spread”) is now about …

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