Nothing happened today. It was a moderately good day for the Canadian preferred share market today [for a change!] with PerpetualDiscounts up 13bp, FixedResets gaining 12bp and DeemedRetractibles winning 32bp. The Performance Highlights table is …
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November 26, 2015
I will be very disappointed if this is the end of the Silver-Sprott battle: Today, Silver Bullion Trust (TSX:SBT.UN) (C$) (TSX:SBT.U) (US$) (“SBT”) entered into a new definitive agreement with Purpose Investments Inc. (“Purpose”), regarding …
November 25, 2015
The UK government is bringing micromanagement of the economy to new levels: Buy-to-let landlords have been hit by the second major tax hike in less than a year, as Chancellor George Osborne took action against …
November 24, 2015
The junk market is getting nervous: Investors in the debt of junk-rated companies are showing little patience for even the slightest whiff of bad news as they seek to shield themselves from the market’s first …
November 23, 2015
I was disgusted to read an opinion piece in the Globe titled The weakest links in terror finance legislation need to be addressed: Group of 20 leaders turned their focus to the financing question this …
November 20, 2015
There were no surprises with Canadian inflation: Statistics Canada reported Friday that the country’s inflation rate, as measured by the year-over-year change in the CPI, held steady at 1 per cent in October, as slumping …
November 19, 2015
Today’s post is dedicated to the snivelling cowards who don’t want to take in Syrian refugees because ISIS might get mad at us. Wear one of these on your lapel on future Remembrance Days instead …
November 18, 2015
Assiduous Reader JP, who sends me more interesting links than all the rest of youse other bums combined, brings to my attention a popular press story on corporate bond liquidity: Add one more name to …
November 17, 2015
Just the bare bones again today, I’m afraid! It was a fine day for the Canadian preferred share market, with PerpetualDiscounts winning 48bp, FixedResets up 44bp and DeemedRetractibles gaining 42bp. The Performance Highlights table is …
November 16, 2015
There’s are some interesting ventures assigning credit scores to marginal borrowers: They have no bank account, no credit score, no financial identity. So a quarter of humanity hasn’t been able to borrow money. Until now. …