These are total returns, with dividends presumed to have been reinvested at the bid price on the ex-date. The list has been restricted to issues in the HIMIPref™ indices. December 2010 Issue Index DBRS Rating …
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December 31, 2010
It was an extremely slow and boring day on the Canadian preferred share market to end the year, with PerpetualDiscounts up about half a beep and FixedResets losing 6bp. PerpetualDiscounts now yield 5.48%, equivalent to …
December 30, 2010
It has been a great year for corporate debt issuance: Rabobank Nederland, the world’s largest agricultural lender, and Fairfield, Connecticut-based General Electric Co.’s finance unit led $3.19 trillion of offerings, according to data compiled by …
December 29, 2010
There’s an interesting, albeit badly in need of editing, paper by Alessandro Fontana titled The persistent negative CDS-bond basis during the 2007/08 financial crisis: I study the behavior of the CDS-bond basis – the difference …
December 24, 2010
There’s less room at the trough for wind and solar lobbyists: Investors pulled 931 million euros ($1.2 billion) in the first 10 months, already eclipsing the full-year withdrawals in 2008 when the global financial crisis …
December 23, 2010
Allied Irish has joined the cortege: Ireland’s High Court said Allied Irish Banks Plc can be taken over by the government without shareholder approval, as the lender became the fourth bank to fall under state …
KSP.UN: S&P No Longer Rates Underlying Interest
Standard & Poor’s has announced: it affirmed its ‘CCC-‘ unsolicited long-term counterparty credit ratings and negative outlook on Kingsway Financial Services Inc. and its subsidiaries (Kingsway). Subsequently, we withdrew the unsolicited ratings. “Our ratings on …
December 22, 2010
Americans are paying their bills: Loans at least 30 days overdue, a signal of future write- offs, dropped for the 13th consecutive month to 4.38 percent, the lowest since December 2007, Moody’s said today in …
December 21, 2010
The TD / Chrysler deal got done: Toronto-Dominion Bank agreed to buy Chrysler Financial Corp. from Cerberus Capital Management LP for $6.3 billion in cash, adding an auto-finance company in its second-largest acquisition. The purchase …
TCL.PR.D Upgraded to P-3(high) by S&P
Standard & Poors has announced: it raised its long-term corporate credit rating on Montreal-based Transcontinental Inc. to ‘BBB’ from ‘BBB-‘. The outlook is stable. “The upgrade reflects our expectation of the continued improvement in Transcontinental’s …