It’s official – Yellen is the nominee for Fed governor: President Barack Obama will nominate Janet Yellen as chairman of the Federal Reserve, which would put the world’s most powerful central bank in the hands …
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October 8, 2013
Geez, maybe I should open a managed future fund: Brokers have an incentive to keep clients in managed-futures funds because they receive commissions annually of up to 4 percent of assets invested, prospectuses show. Investors …
October 7, 2013
Lawrence Schembri, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada is assiduously sucking up to the politicians: From my perspective, the FSB is a unique international organization that has certain qualities that many associate with Canadians, …
October 4, 2013
No jobs number today! The absence of jobs data leaves economists and their investor clients without the month’s most important numbers on which to place bets, ranging from friendly office pools to million-dollar wagers on …
October 3, 2013
There is increasing awareness that the economy is not all that great: Bank of Nova Scotia economists are now raising the possibility of no move in the Bank of Canada’s benchmark interest rate until 2016. …
October 2, 2013
SEC Chair Mary Jo White gave a speech titled Focusing on Fundamentals: The Path to Address Equity Market Structure. All the usual blather, but there was one point of interest: So, today, I am pleased …
MAPF Portfolio Composition: September 2013
Turnover remained reasonable in September, at about 9%. 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 1, 2013
Tiff Macklem gave a speech to the Economic Club of Canada titled Global Growth and the Prospects for Canada’s Exports – I found Chart 12 to be of great interest: A second factor influencing our …
September 30, 2013
The US government is heading towards shut-down: The U.S. government stands poised for its first partial shutdown in 17 years at midnight tonight, after a weekend with no signs of negotiations or compromise from the …
September 27, 2013
I found some excellent commentary on teachers’ salaries: While we might all agree that the middle class is partly a state-of-mind, I define the middle class as the middle 50 percent of individual earnings. With …