Today’s big news was the FOMC release: Consistent with its statutory mandate, the Committee seeks to foster maximum employment and price stability. The Committee currently expects that, with gradual adjustments in the stance of monetary …
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January 26, 2016
Bloomberg published a graph showing how common negative yields have become: Click for Big There was a good chunk of pension de-risking done by Sun Life: Two Canadian pension plans are teaming up to buy …
January 25, 2016
The oil crash is being compared to subprime, in appearance if not in effect: One year ago, analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch drew a parallel between the subprime mortgage crash and the disorderly …
January 22, 2016
Yeah, so it was a Friday to be remembered: Oil prices surged as much as 10 per cent on Friday, one of the biggest daily rallies ever, as bearish traders who had taken out record …
January 21, 2016
So much for private equity: Henry Kravis called it private equity’s golden age. From 2005 to 2007, buyout firms paid fat prices to buy about 20 supersized companies, from Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. to Hertz …
January 20, 2016
Today’s big news was the BoC rate announcement: 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 3/4 per …
January 19, 2016
All eyes are on the BoC policy rate meeting: The implied odds of a rate cut according to financial markets stand at just over 50 percent, and private-sector economists are almost evenly divided on whether …
January 18, 2016
Here’s a lesson in counterparty risk management: The demise of Invexstar Capital Management has also raised eyebrows about the ease with which a group of Italian financiers were able to trade billions of pounds of …
January 15, 2016
Holy Smokes, that was a day and a half! Stocks tumbled around the world, with U.S. equities sinking to their lowest levels since August, and bonds and gold jumped as oil’s plunge below $30 sent …
PPL.PR.K Hammered on Muted Volume
Pembina Pipeline Corporation has announced: that it has closed its previously announced public offering of cumulative redeemable minimum rate reset class A preferred shares, Series 11 (the “Series 11 Preferred Shares”) for aggregate gross proceeds …