There was a thought-provoking comment in a Globe & Mail story on the Ukraine’s importance to the global grain trade: One thing I don’t see in this article: to what extent is Ukraine dependant on …
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March 20, 2014
The war on traders is having one predictable effect: Junior bankers in the United Arab Emirates are reaping almost 36 percent more salary than their counterparts in London, with bonuses almost double those paid in …
March 19, 2014
Jonathan Weil of Bloomberg decries regulatory extortion: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is out again with another reminder that he doesn’t like the way high-frequency traders operate. He believes they have unfair advantages, and …
March 18, 2014
Bloomberg’s Matt Levine writes a nice piece on Lloyds bank and regulatory par calls. Looks like a bit more of OSFI-style capital-markets-as-a-cooperative-game legitimate-expectations-of-security-holders garbage: So Lloyds’s ECNs, like most capital securities, had an explicit regulatory …
March 17, 2014
The wonderful thing about trade is that it’s very difficult to go half-way: The Ukrainian crisis is putting a strain on Russia’s $2 trillion economy, which grew 1.3 percent in 2013 after expanding 3.4 percent …
LFE.PR.B Releases 2013 Annual Report
Canadian Life Companies Split Corp. has released its Annual Report to November 30, 2013. LFE / LFE.PR.A & LFE.PR.B Performance Instrument OneYear ThreeYears FiveYears Whole Unit +22.71% +5.22% +2.67% LFE.PR.A & LFE.PR.B +6.43% +5.88% +5.68% …
March 14, 2014
Some little kids want Mommy to make everything nice: For nearly a year, a group of major bond investors has been looking for answers to a seemingly simple question — who among Canada’s many regulators …
March 13, 2014
Nothing happened today. It was a mixed day for the Canadian preferred share market, with PerpetualDiscounts up 34bp, FixedResets off 3bp and DeemedRetractibles gaining 3bp. Volatility was low. Volume was average, with the highlights comprised …
March 12, 2014
The robots are taking over: When Minneapolis attorney William Greene faced the task of combing through 1.3 million electronic documents in a recent case, he turned to a so-called smart computer program. Three associates selected …
March 11, 2014
Banner headline on Bloomberg – An FX trade didn’t work out: A senior currency dealer at Lloyds Banking Group Plc shared details of a pending order by his firm with a trader at another company …