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November 29, 2007
Well … today the TD Bank and National Bank financials were analyzed … and, in addition, month-end is a-coming and duty calls with a shrill, unpleasant voice. So there won’t be much colour today. American ABCP …
November 27, 2007
Of most interest today (well … last night!) was the Abu-Dhabi SWF investment in Citigroup. As noted by Naked Capitalism, this deal was done, effectively, at a concession to the current market price, given that …
November 26, 2007
The big news today was Quebecor World’s suspension of preferred dividends; but that has its own post. There was a fair bit of news on the MLEC/Super-conduit front. HSBC is bailing out its SIVs, taking …
November 21, 2007
Menzie Chinn of Econbrowser wrote a good piece yesterday reviewing the dollar’s decline, noting: So while there is a tremendous amount of inertia in a currency’s reserve role, what we might be seeing now is …
November 19, 2007
Gary Stern, President of the Minneapolis Fed, gave a speech in Singapore titled “Credit Market Developments: Lessons for Central Banking, which has provoked sharp disagreement from Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism The theme of Mr. …
Weston on Review Negative by DBRS
DBRS has announced that Weston is under review with negative implications due to the review of Loblaw: DBRS has today placed the ratings of Loblaw Companies Limited (Loblaw, or the Company) Under Review with Negative …
November 15, 2007
Well, there won’t be much today, I’m afraid! What with fixing (well, patching, anyway) my server problem and a … rather exciting day in the markets, there hasn’t been much time to Stay Abreast of …
MAPF Sustainable Income
I received a call today from a client who is most concerned about the preferred share market in general and Malachite Aggressive Preferred Fund in particular. It will not have escaped notice that the fund …
Where Did the Risk Go? – An Early Attack on the Ratings Agencies
I’ve run across an extremely interesting paper, Where Did the Risk Go? How Misapplied Bond Ratings Cause Mortgage Backed Securities and Collateralized Debt Obligation Market Disruptions, written by Joseph R. Mason, an associate professor at Drexel …