The Boston Fed has released a “Current Policy Perspective” titled Who Will Pay for Tariffs? Businesses’ Expectations about Costs and Prices by Philippe Andrade, Alexander M. Dietrich, John Leer, Xiao Lin, Raphael S. Schoenle, Jenny …
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September 26, 2025
Good news from America! The American consumer is still spending: The US economy’s comeback in the second quarter was just revised higher again, and economists estimate that momentum carried on in the third quarter, underscoring …
September 25, 2025
Lisa Cook got some more high-profile support today: Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has the support of every living former chair of the central bank’s powerful Board in her legal battle with President Donald Trump, …
September 24, 2025
PerpetualDiscounts now yield 5.71%, equivalent to 7.42% interest at the standard conversion factor of 1.3x. Long corporates yielded 4.86% on 2025-9-17, so the pre-tax interest-equivalent spread (in this context, the “Seniority Spread”) remains at the …
September 23, 2025
HIMIPref™ Preferred IndicesThese values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref™ IndicesValues are provisional and are finalized monthly Index MeanCurrentYield(at bid) MedianYTW MedianAverageTradingValue MedianMod Dur(YTW) Issues Day’s Perf. Index Value Ratchet 6.64 % 7.09 …
FTN & FTN.PR.A : Capital Unit Share Split, Preferred Share Dividend Policy
Quadravest has announced: Financial 15 Split Corp. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce its intention to complete a share split of its Class A shares (the “Share Split”) due to the Company’s strong performance. The …
September 22, 2025
HIMIPref™ Preferred IndicesThese values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref™ IndicesValues are provisional and are finalized monthly Index MeanCurrentYield(at bid) MedianYTW MedianAverageTradingValue MedianMod Dur(YTW) Issues Day’s Perf. Index Value Ratchet 6.65 % 7.09 …
September 19, 2025
I have updated the post regarding the GWO new issue. HIMIPref™ Preferred IndicesThese values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref™ IndicesValues are provisional and are finalized monthly Index MeanCurrentYield(at bid) MedianYTW MedianAverageTradingValue MedianMod …
September 18, 2025
With the new issues from GWO and POW coming out, one has to wonder whether there will be more. But today DBRS rated some sub-debt from Enbridge: DBRS Limited (Morningstar DBRS) assigned a credit rating …
September 17, 2025
The FOMC released its statement: Recent indicators suggest that growth of economic activity moderated in the first half of the year. Job gains have slowed, and the unemployment rate has edged up but remains low. …