Canada’s central planners are flexing their muscles: Ottawa is forcing Canada’s two main railway companies to double the amount of grain they ship in a week to try to unclog a transport bottleneck that has …
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March 7, 2014
Last mentioned on January 31, 2013, the Litvak case has been brought to an appalling new development: Litvak, 39, of New York, was found guilty by a federal jury today of all counts including securities …
March 6, 2014
Nothing happened today, but I must say that I am astonished at the UofO hockey-team / facebook chat kerfuffle: As the University of Ottawa wrestles with its response to a week of sexually charged scandals, …
March 5, 2014
There is confusion at the Bank of England: The Bank of England suspended a member of staff as it conducts a probe into allegations that officials condoned practices behind the currency-manipulation scandal. While the BOE …
March 4, 2014
There’s a bit of a move forward with the Danish question: Denmark’s biggest mortgage bank said about a fifth of covered bonds in the nation’s $550 billion market can be excluded from the top liquidity …
March 3, 2014
This is interesting – a zero-cost brokerage: How does Robinhood make money? Robinhood will offer margin trading as well as API access, which will allow partnered developers to build applications in conjunction with Robinhood. Robinhood …
MAPF: Portfolio Composition, February 2014
Turnover was very low in February, about 2%. 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 …
February 28, 2014
Nothing happened today. It was another positive day for the Canadian preferred share market, with PerpetualDiscounts winning 17bp, FixedResets gaining 10bp and DeemedRetractibles up 13bp. Volatility was merely average, but the Performance Highlights table is …
February 27, 2014
Good old regulators! Keeping the world safe for you, me and, of course, themselves: Forget hiring a top hedge fund to manage your portfolio. Your better bet might be an employee at the Securities and …
ALB.PR.B Upgraded to Pfd-2 by DBRS
DBRS has announced: The dividends received from the Portfolio are used to pay a fixed cumulative quarterly distribution of $0.2316 per share to holders of the Class B Preferred Shares, yielding approximately 4.25% annually on …