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. August 2010 Issue Index DBRS Rating …
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September 3, 2010
Mr Thomas C Baxter, Jr, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, testified to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission regarding the Lehman bankruptcy: As of that Friday, there …
September 2, 2010
Nothing happened in the financial markets today, so today the entire market update will be devoted to Canadian politics. Ain’t you lucky? But the integrity of the judicial system is important, as minority shareholders in …
Moody's Warns on Banks' Rating Volatility
Moody’s has released a report on Canadian banks’ risk exposure due to investment banking activities: While the Canadian banking system outperformed most developed country banking systems during the 2007–2009 credit crisis, the Canadian banks’ expansion …
September 1, 2010
Donald C. Langevoort made a good point about trade-throughs in his paper U.S. SECURITIES REGULATION AND GLOBAL COMPETITION: Gadinis points out that U.S. and European regulation is similar in one strategy—trying to force trading interest …
August 31, 2010
The SEC has announced that it: today issued a report cautioning credit rating agencies about deceptive ratings conduct and the importance of sufficient internal controls over the policies, procedures, and methodologies the firms use to …
August 30, 2010
Econbrowser‘s Jim Hamilton has been busy building a database on the term structure of Treasuries. One of the byproducts is a graph of the average term of publicly held US debt: Click for big Senator …
August 27, 2010
Regulators are seeking to ensure that their post-regulatory employment options include non-competitive alternative exchanges: The fine shows regulators are getting serious about demanding that brokerage firms hook up to all the alternative trading systems in …
August 26, 2010
Algos gone wild!: Infinium, a household name in Chicago’s burgeoning trading community, relies on computer horsepower and quantitative models to earn razor-thin profits from short-term trading. It uses its own money to make markets and …
DPS.UN Rated STA-3(high) by DBRS
Dominion Bond Rating Service has announced that it: has today assigned a stability rating of STA-3 (high) to the retractable units (the Units) issued by Diversified Preferred Share Trust (the Trust). The previous rating of …