There was some commentary on Friday’s Treasury action: Treasury five-year notes extended the longest losing streak this year as traders bet improving economic data will push the Federal Reserve to raise rates as early as …
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FTN.PR.A Annual Report 2013
Financial 15 Split Inc. has released its Annual Report to November 30, 2013. FTN / FTN.PR.A Performance Instrument OneYear ThreeYears FiveYears TenYears Whole Unit +34.15% +11.20% +11.19% +3.76% FTN.PR.A +5.38% +5.38% +5.38% +5.40% FTN +104.94% …
June 13, 2014
There’s an interesting paper by Lauren E. Willis of the U of Pennsylvania Law School titled Against Financial Literacy: The dominant model of regulation in the United States for consumer credit, insurance, and investment products …
June 12, 2014
It’s a wonderful economic recovery we’re having: Retail sales rose 0.3 percent in May as American consumers took a respite following a three-month surge in shopping. The gain followed a revised 0.5 percent gain in …
June 11, 2014
The OECD has released its OECD Economic Surveys – CANADA – June 2014 – OVERVIEW. Housing issues and monetary policy • Tighten mortgage insurance to cover only part of lenders’ losses in case of mortgage …
June 10, 2014
OK, so it looks like this series on power storage has turned into a three-day rant; particularly disconcerting because it has nothing whatsoever to do with Canadian preferred shares or even financial markets in general. …
June 9, 2014
Assiduous Reader JP brings the following to my attention, in response to the bit about renewables’ effect on utilities: Europe’s drive toward a power system based on renewable energy has gone so far that output …
June 6, 2014
So the big news of the day was the US jobs number: Payrolls pushed past their U.S. pre-recession peak for the first time in May, a milestone that’s been five years in the making. The …
June 5, 2014
DBRS commented on the Quebec budget: Following disappointing real GDP growth of just 1.1% in 2013, the new budget assumes accelerating growth of 1.8% in 2014 and 2.0% in 2015, supported by an improvement in …
June 4, 2014
It’s nice to see a statistic about how many CLOs lost money in the Credit Crunch: Issuance of CLOs, which helped finance some of the biggest leveraged buyouts in history during the last credit boom, …