Jobs, jobs, jobs! The economy added 256,000 jobs in December, seasonally adjusted, the Labor Department reported on Friday. It was a better-than-expected number amid a labor market that has been slowly cooling for two years. …
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January 9, 2025
The Bank of Canada has released Staff Working Paper 2025-2 by Michael Brolley and David A. Cimon titled Non-Bank Dealing and Liquidity Bifurcation in Fixed-Income Markets: Non-bank financial institutions, such as principal-trading firms and hedge …
January 8, 2025
I have to give a shout-out here to Buñuelos de Viento, a Mexican dessert snack thingy. I’ve discovered these wonderful confections at a new Mexican cafe near me on the south side of Dundas between …
January 7, 2025
Another hat trick for the Canadian preferred share market today, with TXPR, CPD and ZPR all making new 52-week highs. HIMIPref™ Preferred IndicesThese values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref™ IndicesValues are provisional …
January 6, 2025
HIMIPref™ Preferred IndicesThese values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref™ IndicesValues are provisional and are finalized monthly Index MeanCurrentYield(at bid) MedianYTW MedianAverageTradingValue MedianMod Dur(YTW) Issues Day’s Perf. Index Value Ratchet 0.00 % 0.00 …
MAPF Portfolio Composition: December, 2024
Turnover ticked up to about 11% in December, driven largely by a migration from FFH.PR.I (which performed very well following the announcement of the FFH.PR.C / FFH.PR.D redemption) in PerpetualDiscount issues. Sectoral distribution of the …
January 3, 2025
Another batch of 52-week highs today for TXPR, CPD and ZPR. HIMIPref™ Preferred IndicesThese values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref™ IndicesValues are provisional and are finalized monthly Index MeanCurrentYield(at bid) MedianYTW MedianAverageTradingValue …
January 2, 2025
PerpetualDiscounts now yield 6.10%, equivalent to 7.93% interest at the standard equivalency factor of 1.3x. Long corporates yielded 4.63% on 2024-12-31 and since then the closing price of ZLC changed from 15.53 to 15.52, a …
December 31, 2024
TXPR closed at 635.41, up 0.86% on the day after setting a new 52-week high. Volume today was 1.29-million, near the median of the past 21 trading days. CPD closed at 12.57, up 0.48% on …
December 30, 2024
HIMIPref™ Preferred IndicesThese values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref™ IndicesValues are provisional and are finalized monthly Index MeanCurrentYield(at bid) MedianYTW MedianAverageTradingValue MedianMod Dur(YTW) Issues Day’s Perf. Index Value Ratchet 0.00 % 0.00 …