Standard & Poor’s has announced: •We expect Talisman Energy Inc.’s operating performance, specifically its production and cost profile, to show limited improvement in the next 18-24 months, constraining any significant cash-flow growth. •At the same …
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October 9, 2014
The equity jocks are off their meds: After plunging 1.5 percent on Oct. 7 and rallying almost 1.8 percent yesterday, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index dropped 2.1 percent at 4 p.m. in New York …
October 8, 2014
Russia is intervening in the currency markets: Russia’s central bank sold $420 million of foreign currency in its third day of interventions this month to slow the ruble’s world-beating decline. The monetary authority spent the …
October 7, 2014
Europe isn’t looking very good: U.K. 10-year government bonds rose with their German counterparts as a report showed factory orders in Europe’s largest economy plunged the most since 2009 in August, underlining risks to the …
October 6, 2014
Nothing happened today, but there was a nice column from Megan McArdle of Bloomberg regarding the Intregity case before SCOTUS that I mentioned on October 3: But the law is never simple and intuitive, in …
October 3, 2014
Jobs, jobs, jobs! A surprisingly powerful surge in hiring pushed unemployment to a six-year low of 5.9 percent in September as the U.S. labor market showed renewed vigor. The 248,000 gain in payrolls followed a …
MAPF Portfolio Composition: September, 2014
Turnover remained steady in September, at about 10%. There is extreme segmentation in the marketplace, with OSFI’s NVCC rule changes in February 2011 having had the effect of splitting the formerly relatively homogeneous Straight Perpetual …
October 2, 2014
Treasury trading is going electronic: While investors traditionally negotiated prices for U.S. Treasuries by telephone, they’re increasingly turning to computer-based marketplaces for a range of price quotes from different dealers. A record 48 percent of …
October 1, 2014
PIMCo doesn’t love us any more: Pacific Investment Management Co.’s Total Return ETF slashed its holdings of Canadian debt to 2.1 percent from 9.2 percent in the five days ending yesterday, according to data compiled …
September 30, 2014
The downside of the elimination of bankruptcy law as it relates to banks is becoming apparent: But after studying the proposals, National Bank Financial analyst Peter Routledge found that, under the new rules, commmon shareholders …