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September 29, 2016

UPS is attempting to catch up in the drone wars: UPS, despite its decades of delivery experience, is a latecomer to the drone delivery game. Drone startup Flirtey demonstrated a ship-to-shore drone delivery of medical …

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September 28, 2016

PerpetualDiscounts now yield 5.01%, equivalent to 6.51% interest at the standard equivalency factor of 1.3x. Long corporates now yield about 3.6%, so the pre-tax interest-equivalent spread (in this context, the “Seniority Spread”) is now about …

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September 27, 2016

Here’s a US story we probably won’t see in Canada! In a startling development, almost unheard of outside a recession, food prices have fallen for nine straight months in the U.S. It’s the longest streak …

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September 26, 2016

Mark Gilbert of Bloomberg writes about his experience playing a game published by the Fed: The San Francisco branch of the Federal Reserve has a game on its website that lets you play at being …

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September 23, 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 …

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September 22, 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 …

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September 21, 2016

Today’s big news is the FOMC policy rate decision: The Committee expects that, with gradual adjustments in the stance of monetary policy, economic activity will expand at a moderate pace and labor market conditions will …

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September 20, 2016

A spokesman for the Minister of Finance has indicated that the long-predicted recovery may be delayed: In our most recent Monetary Policy Report, in July, we said that our current policy rate setting of 0.5 …

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September 19, 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 …

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