Sweet Baby Jesus: Click for BigJust before midnight on election day The markets could be interesting tomorrow: Panicked investors rushed to unwind bets they’d piled on amid predictions Clinton would sweep to victory. Futures on …
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November 7, 2016
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PSF.UN Merged Into FPR
First Asset Investment Management Inc. has announced: that the merger of Preferred Share Investment Trust (TSX: PSF.UN) (the “Fund”) with First Asset Preferred Share ETF (the “First Asset ETF”) (TSX: FPR) was implemented after the …
MAPF Portfolio Composition: October 2016
Turnover continued to be extremely low in October, at about 1%. 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 …
November 4, 2016
Jobs, jobs, jobs! Employers in the U.S. added 161,000 non-farm jobs in October, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday. The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.9% from 5%. This marks the 73rd consecutive …
November 3, 2016
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 …
November 2, 2016
The incompetent have their shorts in a knot because Standard Chartered did not honour a pretend-maturity: Perpetuals are popular because bonds without a legal maturity date may qualify as equity according to International Financial Reporting …
November 1, 2016
Today’s top news story is that people lash out when disturbed by change: In this western Wisconsin enclave and other pockets of the rural Midwest, Mr. Trump’s pledge to build a wall along the Mexican …
October 31, 2016
More on my speculation on small-batch craftsmanship as the future of employment: Today, smaller plants are particularly important to job creation in factory work, said Scott Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing. “Megafactories …
October 28, 2016
The financial services prep-school boys are hurting: This is Wall Street’s new tech meritocracy. Financial institutions traditionally coveted graduates from Stanford and other big-name schools and people already working in Silicon Valley. But that system …