There is growing fear that Canadian housing is a momentum play: The Bank of Canada is concerned that the acceleration in housing prices in Toronto and Vancouver may be partly due to purchases based solely …
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June 1, 2016
There are some that now believe the US has lost ground as a competitive economy: The United States was knocked out of the top spot in this year’s ranking of the world’s most competitive countries, …
May 31, 2016
Weakness in the Canadian economy late in first quarter is stoking fears of contraction: Despite the solid growth, the first-quarter result was well below the 2.8 per cent average estimate of economists, and a far …
May 30, 2016
Treasury markets, such as they were, were weak today: Ten-year Treasury futures contracts for September delivery slid 14/32, or $4.38 per $1,000 face amount, to 129 9/32 as of 11:07 a.m. in New York, based …
May 27, 2017
Janet Yellen did some modest sabre-rattling: Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the ongoing improvement in the U.S. economy would warrant another interest rate increase “in the coming months,” stopping short of giving an explicit …
May 26, 2016
An interesting proposal for the stored-energy problem: But there is another gravity-based energy storage system that does not need any water, and is even less energy and materials intensive. It’s called Advanced Rail Energy Storage …
May 25, 2016
Today’s news is that the BOC Policy Rate remains unchanged: The Bank of Canada today announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 1/2 per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly …
May 24, 2016
Hurray! Food delivery robots! When the staff at Starship Technologies in Tallinn, Estonia are ready for lunch, they’ll order a few pizzas just like any other office. But they don’t have a human do the …
May 20, 2016
EMA wants to issue new preferreds; Barry Critchley points out they’ll have to pay up relative to their last round: This week Emera took another step on the way to rounding up the cash need …
May 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 4.69 % 5.70 …