{"id":241,"date":"2006-10-31T22:37:51","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T02:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2006-10-31T22:37:51","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T02:37:51","slug":"october-31-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"October 31, 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>4.11%<\/td>\n<td>4.03%<\/td>\n<td>42,749<\/td>\n<td>10.68<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>-0.1794%<\/td>\n<td>1,019.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Fixed-Floater<\/td>\n<td>5.00%<\/td>\n<td>2.75%<\/td>\n<td>151,045<\/td>\n<td>10.65<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>+0.0864%<\/td>\n<td>1,027.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Floater<\/td>\n<td>4.52%<\/td>\n<td>-16.01%<\/td>\n<td>74,789<\/td>\n<td>6.52<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>0.0635%<\/td>\n<td>1,022.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Op. Retract<\/td>\n<td>4.67%<\/td>\n<td>1.94%<\/td>\n<td>89,693<\/td>\n<td>2.37<\/td>\n<td>17<\/td>\n<td>0.0859%<\/td>\n<td>1,021.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Split-Share<\/td>\n<td>4.95%<\/td>\n<td>3.47%<\/td>\n<td>157,739<\/td>\n<td>3.26<\/td>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td>0.0075%<\/td>\n<td>1,022.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Interest Bearing<\/td>\n<td>6.88%<\/td>\n<td>5.16%<\/td>\n<td>57,457<\/td>\n<td>1.97<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>0.0257%<\/td>\n<td>1,024.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Perpetual-Premium<\/td>\n<td>5.07%<\/td>\n<td>3.88%<\/td>\n<td>213,084<\/td>\n<td>4.32<\/td>\n<td>47<\/td>\n<td>0.1516%<\/td>\n<td>1,039.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Perpetual-Discount<\/td>\n<td>4.60%<\/td>\n<td>4.63%<\/td>\n<td>604,494<\/td>\n<td>16.15<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>0.1804%<\/td>\n<td>1,032.6<\/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>BCE.PR.R<\/td>\n<td>FixedFloater<\/td>\n<td>+1.1111%<\/td>\n<td>Just a reversal of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=232\">yesterday&#8217;s loss<\/a>, really : a handful of shares traded just above $25.50. Closed at 25.48-56, 5&#215;5.<\/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>GWO.PR.X<\/td>\n<td>OpRet<\/td>\n<td>307,528<\/td>\n<td>National sold 150,000 @27.55 to Nesbitt, Scotia &#038; Desjardins in the late afternoon. Pre-tax YTW 2.69% based on a bid of $27.55 and a call 2009-10-30 @ $26.00. It only pays $1.20, so it might possibly make it to 2013-9-29, having yielded 3.23%.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>ACO.PR.A<\/td>\n<td>OpRet<\/td>\n<td>276,511<\/td>\n<td>Nesbitt processed an internal cross of 275,000 @ 27.89. Pre-tax YTW of 2.94%, based on a bid of $27.65 and a call 2008-12-31 @ $26.00. It pays $1.4375, so its chances of making it further along the redemption trail are &#8230; not good.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SLF.PR.D<\/td>\n<td>PerpetualDiscount<\/td>\n<td>91,007<\/td>\n<td>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=230\">clean-out sale<\/a> continues, but at a slower pace!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SLF.PR.B<\/td>\n<td>PerpetualPremium<\/td>\n<td>81,885<\/td>\n<td>A bit, but not much, expensive I&#8217;d say, closing at $25.56-63 for a pre-tax YTW of 4.55% based on a call @ $25.00 on 2014-10-30.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>PWF.PR.D<\/td>\n<td>OpRet<\/td>\n<td>70,700<\/td>\n<td>Nesbitt processed an internal cross at $27.18 in the only trade of the day. This issue has trade enough this month that it will be back in the index after rebalancing.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>There were fifteen other index-included issues trading over 10,000 shares today.<\/p>\n<p>\n<p><!--5f46bfadcfe5a5668c99d50a37eb474b-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--194cc2be2de4c6dd12e74eb58b603e47--><\/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-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","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=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}