The La Presse article mentioned on January 24 and in the comments to January 21 may have been identified! Wind of change for equities (translation courtesy of Google): Under the Basel III, the Bank for …
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January 24, 2011
The SEC has released its Study on Investment Advisers and Broker-Dealers: This Study outlines the Staff’s findings and makes recommendations to the Commission for potential new rulemaking, guidance, and other policy changes. These recommendations are …
January 21, 2011
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission is forecast to conclude “It’s complicated.”: The federal commission that investigated the origins of the financial crisis is set to issue three competing conclusions next week. The Financial Crisis Inquiry …
January 20, 2011
Banks have returned to dominance in credit market trading: The average difference to buy and sell the 10 most actively-traded U.S. corporate credit-default swaps contracts ballooned to 24.2 basis points in the nine months after …
January 19, 2011
The Bank of Canada has published the January 2011 Monetary Policy Report: Underlying pressures affecting prices remain subdued, reflecting the considerable slack in the Canadian economy. Core inflation is projected to edge gradually up to …
January 18, 2011
Brookfield is doubling-up on General Growth. It was another good day on good volume for the Canadian preferred share market, with PerpetualDiscounts up 13bp and FixedResets gaining 4bp. HIMIPref™ Preferred IndicesThese values reflect the December …
January 17, 2011
It was another good day for the Canadian preferred share market, with PerpetualDiscounts gaining 33bp and FixedResets up 3bp. Volume eased off, but only slightly. Deeply discounted Straight Perpetuals were the star performers … again. …
January 14, 2011
The housing bubble blame game continues: The FOMC in June heard presentations from staff economists, with some raising alarms about housing markets, the transcript shows. Those warnings didn’t translate into a more aggressive policy. The …
January 13, 2011
There’s a fundamental disagreement about the Citigroup bail-out: “While there was consensus that Citigroup was too systemically significant to be allowed to fail, that consensus appeared to be based as much on gut instinct and …
TMX: Close, Schmose!
Assiduous Readers will recall that MAPF’s reported performance for December was measurably impacted by a bad closing quote on SLF.PR.E: the quote was 19.91-60, 2×27. I noted that I had sent an email of inquiry …