Japan is considering issuing 50-year bonds: Japan’s finance ministry is considering issuing 50-year bonds but says it will first concentrate on deepening and broadening the nascent market for existing 30-year bonds, according to a senior …
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July 26, 2016
Low returns are finally catching up to American pension plans: Twenty-year annualized returns for public pensions in the U.S. are poised to decline to 7.47% once fiscal 2016 results are released in coming weeks, according …
July 25, 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 …
July 22, 2016
Jason Zweig of the Wall Street Journal has some good advice for fixed income investors in a piece titled Investors: Do the Hard Thing, Don’t Do the Easy Thing: The reach for yield is becoming …
July 21, 2016
So now it’s official: it’s not what you know, it’s who you know: Among currently employed workers, those who found their job through a referral from their network had an average weekly salary of $772.20, …
July 20, 2016
The war on markets continued today with the arrest of Mark Johnson, HSBC’s global head of foreign exchange cash trading in London: The two allegedly conspired to take advantage of inside information about an unidentified …
July 19, 2016
The White House has published a study pooh-poohing the theory that student debt has begun to harm the economy: The White House just released a big report on student debt that contains all the familiar …
July 18, 2016
So guess who’s financing your mortgage! Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce has become Canada’s first bank to benefit from Europe’s rush to debt with subzero yields. CIBC sold €1.25-billion ($1.79-billion) worth of six-year covered bonds …
July 15, 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 …
July 14, 2016
Better late than never! 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 …