{"id":174,"date":"2006-10-17T21:44:46","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T01:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2006-10-17T21:44:46","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T01:44:46","slug":"october-17-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"October 17, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"8\"><strong>Note that these indices are experimental; the absolute and relative daily values are expected to change in the final version<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Index<\/td>\n<td>Mean Current Yield (at bid)<\/td>\n<td>Mean YTW<\/td>\n<td>Mean Average Trading Value<\/td>\n<td>Mean Mod Dur (YTW)<\/td>\n<td>Issues<\/td>\n<td>Day&#8217;s Perf.<\/td>\n<td>Index Value<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ratchet<\/td>\n<td>4.16%<\/td>\n<td>4.07%<\/td>\n<td>49,056<\/td>\n<td>10.63<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>-0.0596%<\/td>\n<td>1,019.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Fixed-Floater<\/td>\n<td>4.97%<\/td>\n<td>3.88%<\/td>\n<td>186,066<\/td>\n<td>6.49<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>-0.0333%<\/td>\n<td>1,024.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Floater<\/td>\n<td>4.53%<\/td>\n<td>-15.89%<\/td>\n<td>78,474<\/td>\n<td>6.51<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>0.0637%<\/td>\n<td>1,018.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Op. Retract<\/td>\n<td>4.68%<\/td>\n<td>2.20%<\/td>\n<td>88,687<\/td>\n<td>2.40<\/td>\n<td>17<\/td>\n<td>0.0442%<\/td>\n<td>1,017.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Split-Share<\/td>\n<td>4.94%<\/td>\n<td>3.68%<\/td>\n<td>155,218<\/td>\n<td>3.29<\/td>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td>0.6266%<\/td>\n<td>1,022.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Interest Bearing<\/td>\n<td>6.90%<\/td>\n<td>5.13%<\/td>\n<td>56,361<\/td>\n<td>2.01<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>-0.0251%<\/td>\n<td>1,021.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Perpetual-Premium<\/td>\n<td>5.09%<\/td>\n<td>3.54%<\/td>\n<td>220,336<\/td>\n<td>4.35<\/td>\n<td>47<\/td>\n<td>0.0344%<\/td>\n<td>1,034.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Perpetual-Discount<\/td>\n<td>4.58%<\/td>\n<td>4.61%<\/td>\n<td>568,307<\/td>\n<td>16.19<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>0.1045%<\/td>\n<td>1,034.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"4\"><strong>Major Price Changes<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Issue<\/td>\n<td>Index<\/td>\n<td>Change<\/td>\n<td>Notes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>PIC.PR.A<\/td>\n<td>SplitShare<\/td>\n<td>+1.1136%<\/td>\n<td>Closed at 16.07-35 on volume of 9,711 shares &#8230; a few shares traded at the offering price.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"4\"><strong>Volume Highlights<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Issue<\/td>\n<td>Index<\/td>\n<td>Volume<\/td>\n<td>Notes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>LBS.PR.A<\/td>\n<td>SplitShare<\/td>\n<td>1,671,290<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=172\">Opening Day<\/a>!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>PWF.PR.I<\/td>\n<td>PerpetualPremium<\/td>\n<td>303,300<\/td>\n<td>Nesbitt crossed 200,000 @ 27.00, then 100,000 at the same price. The Pre-tax YTW is 3.19% at this price, based on a May, 2008 call. Since it pays $1.50, the chance of a call is relatively high &#8230; but maybe it will hang on until May, 2012, after delivering 4.36%.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ELF.PR.G<\/td>\n<td>PerpetualPremium<\/td>\n<td>135,325<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=173\">Opening Day<\/a>!<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BAM.PR.G<\/td>\n<td>FixedFloater<\/td>\n<td>107,650<\/td>\n<td>This thing continues to trade heavily &#8211; see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=168\">yesterday&#8217;s comments<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>NA.PR.K<\/td>\n<td>PerpetualPremium<\/td>\n<td>102,092<\/td>\n<td>Desjardins crossed 98,100 @ 27.10. At the closing bid of $27.17, these things have a pre-tax YTW of only 2.59% based on a call in June 2008. Somebody obviously thinks they&#8217;ll hang on until June 2012, having yielded 4.06% &#8230; but since it pays $1.4625, it&#8217;s not a bet I&#8217;d make, seeing as I don&#8217;t have to!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>There were thirty-one other index-included issues trading over 10,000 shares today.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--63a12a2de7ff4cffc9412fb9e10de951--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note that these indices are experimental; the absolute and relative daily values are expected to change in the final version Index Mean Current Yield (at bid) Mean YTW Mean Average Trading Value Mean Mod Dur &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}