American shoppers are loading up on the blue-light special: The Canadian dollar — the loonie — has fallen about 18 percent against its U.S. counterpart over the past two years after flirting with parity several …
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Apology Re Timeliness
Readers will have noticed that there has still not been a report of January performance by the fund, nor a review of the January performance of low-spread FixedResets (although performance for the fund was reported …
March 1, 2016
“Fairness!” shout the regulators! “Fairness in all things, which means equality in all things, regardless of marginal costs to the fair entity! So Barclay’s provides an example: Click for Big Financial market reporters covering U.S. …
February 29, 2016
Again, just the bare bones. Sorry! 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. …
February 26, 2016
Sorry this is so late! 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 …
February 25, 2016
Just the bare bones today, I’m afraid! Liquidity in the FX market Rules for lightweight drones Towards a formal theory of bank interconnectedness The bond market hates energy Financial analysis jobs being automated. HSBC confirmed …
MFC.PR.O Soft on Heavy Volume
Manulife Financial Corporation has announced: that it has completed its offering of 16 million Non-cumulative Rate Reset Class 1 Shares Series 21 (the “Series 21 Preferred Shares”) at a price of $25 per share to …
February 24, 2016
Assiduous Reader prefobsessed sent me a link to another Barry Critchley column titled Preferred shareholders, but in name only; he is incensed by the voting rights on the proposed takeover of Capstone. I have updated …
February 23, 2016
A horrible day for equities is continuing overnight: Appetite for equities continued to sour in Asia as oil’s drop and a revival in demand for low-risk assets saw stocks from Japan to Australia decline with …
February 22, 2016
Assiduous Readers will remember David Rosenberg’s thesis that liquidations by resource-dependent Sovereign Wealth Funds are an important factor in the horrible markets, as discussed on February 2. Well, there’s some more fuel coming for that …