DBRS commented on the Federal budget: As anticipated at the time of DBRS’s last review, Canada’s debt burden appears to have reached an inflection point and reducing debt remains a long-term goal of the government. …
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February 11, 2014
There were no surprises in Yellen’s testimony to Congress: Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen pledged to maintain her predecessor’s policies by scaling back stimulus in “measured steps” and signaled that the bar is high for …
February 10, 2014
Nothing happened today. It was another mixed day for the Canadian preferred share market, with PerpetualDiscounts off 17bp, FixedResets up 10bp and DeemedRetractibles gaining 6bp. The Performance Highlights table is dominated by losing Floating Rate …
February 7, 2014
Golly, what a surprise: Bank of England officials told currency traders it wasn’t improper to share impending customer orders with counterparts at other firms, a practice at the heart of a widening probe into alleged …
February 6, 2014
Hands up, everybody who didn’t see this coming! Suing CRAs is fashionable! Today’s looniest financial story is surely that Italy’s state auditor, the Corte dei Conti, has opened an investigation into Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s …
February 5, 2014
DBRS doesn’t like the New Brunswick budget: DBRS notes that the Province of New Brunswick (the Province or New Brunswick; rated A (high) with a Stable trend) kicked off the provincial budget season with its …
DBRS Downgrades TCL.PR.D to Pfd-3(low)
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February 4, 2014
Nothing happened today. It was a good day for the Canadian preferred share market, with PerpetualDiscounts winning 38bp, FixedResets gaining 11bp and DeemedRetractibles up 16bp. The performance highlights table is short, but comprised entirely of …
February 3, 2014
More blather about housing prices: The price-to-rent ratio pegs the level at 60 per cent, [TD economist] Ms. [Diana] Petramala said, but is “skewed” by rent controls, and thus it’s hard to determine whether the …
MAPF: Portfolio Composition January 2014
Turnover crept upwards in January, to about 5%. 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 …