The Fed held the line on policy rates today: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in April indicates that the pace of improvement in the labor market has slowed while growth in …
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June 14, 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 …
June 13, 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 …
June 10, 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 …
June 9, 2016
Janus Capital introduced a new batch of ETFs today … some old guys might want to overweight them: It’s easy to imagine the slapping sounds of high-fives when Janus executives conjured up these ticker symbols: …
June 8, 2016
PerpetualDiscounts now have a yield of 5.38%, equivalent to 6.99% interest at the standard equivalency factor of 1.3x. Long corporates now yield 3.9%, so the pre-tax interest-equivalent spread is now about 310bp, narrowing from the …
June 7, 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 …
June 6, 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 …
MAPF Portfolio Composition: May, 2016
Turnover in May was modest at about 5%. 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 …
June 3, 2016
Jobs, jobs … whoopsy! The U.S. economy looks to be in danger of losing its main pillar as employers throttled back hiring in May to the lowest level in almost six years. The slowdown — …