Foreclosures are down in the States, but it’s not really good news: Foreclosure filings in the U.S. fell 34 percent last month from a year earlier as lenders already swamped with seized homes delayed action …
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May 11, 2011
Nothing happened today. It was another good solid day for the Canadian preferred share market, with PerpetualDiscounts up 4bp, FixedResets gaining 13bp and DeemedRetractibles ahead 11bp. PerpetualDiscounts now yield 5.55%, equivalent to 7.22% interest at …
RON.PR.A: DBRS Changes Trend to Negative
DBRS has revised the trend on the Pfd-3 rating of RON.PR.A from stable to negative: DBRS has today changed the trend on the BBB Senior Unsecured Debt rating and Pfd-3 Preferred Shares rating of RONA …
May 10, 2011
Global markets are getting more efficient: Computer-based trading in India’s $1.5 trillion stock market may double to half of all orders within three years as demand for speedier execution surges, according to the Bombay Stock …
May 9, 2011
One thing that may be helping the US economy is squatters’ rent: Millions of Americans have more money to spend since they fell delinquent on their mortgages amid the worst housing collapse since the Great …
May 6, 2011
Remember the good old days of 2008-09? When every Friday night we could make a batch of popcorn and watch the parade of bankrupts? This weekend might have some interesting European news: European finance officials …
May 5, 2011
Surprise! Increased regulation lead to migration to non-regulated channels: For Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and Morgan Stanley, two of Wall Street’s biggest commodities-trading firms, the year’s largest initial public offering represents a nightmare come …
Some Good Papers on Regulatory Capture
Nicholas Dorn, Erasmus University Rotterdam – Erasmus School of Law, Ponzi Finance, Regulatory Capture and the Credit Crunch: The unfolding financial market instability provokes questions about the safety of all financial investments and, in doing …
May 4, 2011
The Bank of Canada has released a discussion paper by Gordon Wilkinson titled The Behaviour of Consumer Prices Across Provinces: Measures of core inflation enable a central bank to distinguish price movements that are transitory …
May 3, 2011
The FRB Cleveland has released the April, 2011, edition of Economic Trends. There will be a conference on The Future of Life-Cycle Saving & Investing sponsored by the Boston Fed and others at the end …