The David Berry Saga keeps grinding on: David Berry has lost another bid to toss out disciplinary action taken against him by IIROC (Investment Industry Regulators of Canada). The Divisional Court of the Ontario Court …
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December 6, 2010
Germany is convinced that European investments are a risky proposition: European officials voiced divisions over the steps needed to stop the sovereign debt crisis as Germany opposes increasing the 750 billion-euro ($1 trillion) bailout fund …
MAPF Portfolio Composition: November 2010
Turnover remained fairly constant in November, at just under 30%. Trades were, as ever, triggered by a desire to exploit transient mispricing in the preferred share market (which may be thought of as “selling liquidity”), …
December 3, 2010
The inherent contradictions of the brokerage business continue to cause problems: Social media sites such as LinkedIn and Twitter are redefining the way businesses reach their customers. Securities firms are largely absent from the revolution.…The …
December 2, 2010
The European emergency measures is being extended: Under pressure from investors to lead the charge against the spreading sovereign debt crisis, Trichet said the ECB will keep offering banks as much cash as they want …
December 1, 2010
S&P has put Portugal on watch-negative: What Portugal does to combat downward pressures on growth and under what terms it accepts external support–if it does at all–will influence the government’s creditworthiness. The Eurogroup Ministers recently …
Best & Worst Performers: November 2010
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. November 2010 Issue Index DBRS Rating …
November 30, 2010
Markets remain unimpressed by the Irish bail-out: The difference in yield between Italian 10-year bonds and German bunds widened to 199 basis points after reaching 212 points earlier. The Spanish-German yield spread rose 17 basis …
November 29, 2010
The Globe featured the opinions of John Parkins in a squib on Friday: Here are two words you don’t often see placed next to each other: “corrosive trust.” That’s a term used by an Alberta …
November 26, 2010
Ireland’s causing more trouble: Senior bonds of Allied Irish Banks Plc and Bank of Ireland Plc slumped today amid concern the government will force holders of such debt to share the cost of bailing out …