Nothing happened today. It was a poor day for the Canadian preferred share market, with PerpetualPremiums losing 10bp, FixedResets off 3bp and DeemedRetractibles down 7bp. Volatility was muted. Volume more than made up in strength …
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CCS Outlook Positive: S&P
Standard & Poor’s has announced: •The combined operating performance of CFSL’s operating entities, CGIC and CLIC, has improved. •We view the capital adequacy for the consolidated Co-operators group as very strong. •We are affirming the …
October 16, 2012
Commodity Futures Trading Commission Democratic Commissioner Bart Chilton’s recent speech contained some ominous points: Here’s the thing: our futures markets were never established to be gaming at gambling houses. Leave that to Amarillo Slim and …
October 15, 2012
Statistics Canada has revised estimated productivity growth substantially downwards: The latest revisions mean the Canada-U.S. gap is now wider – 0.8 percentage points per year from 1981 to 2012, up from 0.7 per cent. Fortunately, …
October 12, 2012
Surprisingly, a business-hostile government isn’t getting much help from business: French companies aren’t investing much at home these days. A no-growth economy had already damped spending when President Francois Hollande’s government late last month unveiled …
October 11, 2012
Red letter day! There was an intelligent quote about high frequency trading in the papers: Murray Leith, director of investment research at Vancouver-based Odlum Brown Ltd., agrees that markets should be policed properly to eliminate …
October 10, 2012
Australia’s debt market is not what it used to be: Australia sold A$3.25 billion ($3.3 billion) of notes due in 16 1/2 years, the longest-maturity bonds on record in government data going back to 1982, …
October 9, 2012
Great news! At long last, high-earning Britons will pay their fair share: U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron said his government will announce additional measures to increase taxes on the rich, while ruling out a so-called …
October 5, 2012
The US jobs number was OK: The unemployment rate in the U.S. unexpectedly fell to 7.8 percent in September, the lowest since President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, as employers took on more …
October 4, 2012
Looks like it will be the Americans getting all the Asian LNG business: A massive new proposal to export natural gas from Alaska brings a major competitor into the race to carry North American gas …