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DF.PR.A Annual Report

Dividend 15 Split Corp. II has released its Annual Report to November 30, 2010. DF / DF.PR.A Performance Instrument OneYear ThreeYears SinceInception Whole Unit +12.20% -2.34% -0.29% DF.PR.A +5.38% +5.38% +5.38% DF +23.41% -8.89% -5.24% …

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April 8, 2011

It looks like the Australians are just as frightened of competition as we are: Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan rejected Singapore Exchange Ltd. (SGX)’s bid for ASX Ltd. (ASX), saying the deal was not in his …

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April 7, 2011

Nothing happened today, but it looks as if the US government might take a week off: President Barack Obama and the top two leaders in Congress failed to reach a budget deal in their third …

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April 6, 2011

We’re learning more about the discount window: Details of Fed lending released last week show that Dexia SA (DEXB), based in Brussels and Paris, borrowed as much as $37 billion, with an average daily loan …

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April 5, 2011

There’s some cheerleading for solar power: Electricity from coal costs about 7 cents a kilowatt hour compared with 6 cents for natural gas and 22.3 cents for solar photovoltaic energy in the final quarter of …

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April 4, 2011

The predicted hike in the European policy rate is causing some angst: Primed to raise its benchmark interest rate this week for the first time in almost three years, President Trichet’s European Central Bank again …

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April 1, 2011

There’s a new bid for the NYSE: Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NDAQ) and IntercontinentalExchange Inc. (ICE) made an unsolicited bid of about $11.3 billion for NYSE Euronext, trying to snatch the owner of the New …

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March 31, 2011

Europe’s on credit watch: Moody’s Investors Service said it can’t rule out further credit downgrades for euro-region nations because the agreement on a permanent bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism, doesn’t go far enough. European …

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March 30, 2011

Europeans seem to want to blame commodity price inflation on speculators – Hoenig blames the Fed: The Federal Reserve’s “highly accommodative” monetary policy is partly to blame for rapidly increasing global commodity prices, said Kansas …

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