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RY.PR.M To Be Redeemed

Royal Bank of Canada has announced: its intention to redeem all of its issued and outstanding Non-Viability Contingent Capital (NVCC) Non-Cumulative 5-Year Rate Reset First Preferred Shares, Series BF (Series BF shares) (TSX: RY.PR.M) on …

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Market Action

September 3, 2025

PerpetualDiscounts now yield 5.68%, equivalent to 7.38% interest at the standard conversion factor of 1.3x. Long corporates yield 5.10%, so the pre-tax interest-equivalent spread (in this context, the “Seniority Spread”) is now 230bp, a slight …

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Market Action

August 27, 2025

To continue the Trump-Cook reporting from yesterday … Janet Yellen has weighed in: Former Federal Reserve Chair and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen slammed President Trump on Wednesday for moving to fire Fed board of governors …

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Market Action

August 20, 2025

There’s some more commentary on the spectacle of free-enterprise, freedom-loving, double-entry-bookkeeping rugged American types kow-towing to Trump: The orthodoxy manifested itself in familiar ways. Groups that claimed the mantle of individual liberties would decry new …

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Market Action

August 13, 2025

PerpetualDiscounts now yield 5.75%, equivalent to 7.48% interest at the standard conversion factor of 1.3x. Long corporates now yield 4.93%, so the pre-tax interest-equivalent spread (in this context, the “Seniority Spread”) is now 255bp, unchanged …

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Market Action

August 6, 2025

PerpetualDiscounts now yield 5.74%, equivalent to 7.46% interest at the standard conversion factor of 1.3x. Long corporates now yield 4.89%, so the pre-tax interest-equivalent spread (in this context, the “Seniority Spread”) is now 255bp, unchanged …

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