{"id":24451,"date":"2014-02-14T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=24451"},"modified":"2014-02-14T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T00:44:00","slug":"febuary-14-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=24451","title":{"rendered":"Febuary 14, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing happened today.<\/p>\n<p>It was a positive day for the Canadian preferred share market, with PerpetualDiscounts up 7bp, FixedResets winning 10bp and DeemedRetractibles gaining 6bp. The Performance Highlights table is a little longer than usual, but has no clear pattern. Volume was low.<\/p>\n<table border='1'>\n<tr>\n<td colspan='8'><strong>HIMIPref&trade; Preferred Indices<br \/>These values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref&trade; Indices<\/strong><br \/>Values are provisional and are finalized monthly<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Index<\/td>\n<td>Mean<br \/>Current<br \/>Yield<br \/>(at bid)<\/td>\n<td>Median<br \/>YTW<\/td>\n<td>Median<br \/>Average<br \/>Trading<br \/>Value<\/td>\n<td>Median<br \/>Mod Dur<br \/>(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>0.00 %<\/td>\n<td>0.00 %<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>0.00<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>-0.3703 %<\/td>\n<td>2,411.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>FixedFloater<\/td>\n<td>4.75 %<\/td>\n<td>4.34 %<\/td>\n<td>30,944<\/td>\n<td>17.74<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>-0.1000 %<\/td>\n<td>3,569.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Floater<\/td>\n<td>3.00 %<\/td>\n<td>3.11 %<\/td>\n<td>53,366<\/td>\n<td>19.42<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>-0.3703 %<\/td>\n<td>2,603.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>OpRet<\/td>\n<td>4.61 %<\/td>\n<td>-0.46 %<\/td>\n<td>68,359<\/td>\n<td>0.13<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>0.0641 %<\/td>\n<td>2,688.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SplitShare<\/td>\n<td>4.87 %<\/td>\n<td>5.02 %<\/td>\n<td>62,001<\/td>\n<td>4.33<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>0.1289 %<\/td>\n<td>3,011.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Interest-Bearing<\/td>\n<td>0.00 %<\/td>\n<td>0.00 %<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>0.00<\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>0.0641 %<\/td>\n<td>2,458.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Perpetual-Premium<\/td>\n<td>5.67 %<\/td>\n<td>1.29 %<\/td>\n<td>93,895<\/td>\n<td>0.08<\/td>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>0.0298 %<\/td>\n<td>2,334.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Perpetual-Discount<\/td>\n<td>5.56 %<\/td>\n<td>5.59 %<\/td>\n<td>148,156<\/td>\n<td>14.49<\/td>\n<td>26<\/td>\n<td>0.0663 %<\/td>\n<td>2,387.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>FixedReset<\/td>\n<td>4.90 %<\/td>\n<td>3.76 %<\/td>\n<td>210,538<\/td>\n<td>6.43<\/td>\n<td>82<\/td>\n<td>0.0957 %<\/td>\n<td>2,489.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Deemed-Retractible<\/td>\n<td>5.12 %<\/td>\n<td>4.04 %<\/td>\n<td>162,877<\/td>\n<td>1.93<\/td>\n<td>42<\/td>\n<td>0.0614 %<\/td>\n<td>2,424.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>FloatingReset<\/td>\n<td>2.66 %<\/td>\n<td>2.64 %<\/td>\n<td>162,858<\/td>\n<td>7.16<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>-0.2612 %<\/td>\n<td>2,434.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table border='1'>\n<tr>\n<td colspan='4'><strong>Performance Highlights<\/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>BAM.PR.B<\/td>\n<td>Floater<\/td>\n<td>-1.33 %<\/td>\n<td>YTW SCENARIO<br \/>\nMaturity Type   : Limit Maturity<br \/>\nMaturity Date\t: 2044-02-14<br \/>\nMaturity Price  : 17.02<br \/>\nEvaluated at bid price : 17.02<br \/>\nBid-YTW : 3.11 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>IFC.PR.A<\/td>\n<td>FixedReset<\/td>\n<td>-1.08 %<\/td>\n<td>YTW SCENARIO<br \/>\nMaturity Type   : Hard Maturity<br \/>\nMaturity Date\t: 2025-01-31<br \/>\nMaturity Price  : 25.00<br \/>\nEvaluated at bid price : 23.89<br \/>\nBid-YTW : 4.28 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BAM.PR.N<\/td>\n<td>Perpetual-Discount<\/td>\n<td>1.02 %<\/td>\n<td>YTW SCENARIO<br \/>\nMaturity Type   : Limit Maturity<br \/>\nMaturity Date\t: 2044-02-14<br \/>\nMaturity Price  : 19.89<br \/>\nEvaluated at bid price : 19.89<br \/>\nBid-YTW : 6.07 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>PWF.PR.A<\/td>\n<td>Floater<\/td>\n<td>1.06 %<\/td>\n<td>YTW SCENARIO<br \/>\nMaturity Type   : Limit Maturity<br \/>\nMaturity Date\t: 2044-02-14<br \/>\nMaturity Price  : 19.07<br \/>\nEvaluated at bid price : 19.07<br \/>\nBid-YTW : 2.75 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BAM.PR.X<\/td>\n<td>FixedReset<\/td>\n<td>1.16 %<\/td>\n<td>YTW SCENARIO<br \/>\nMaturity Type   : Limit Maturity<br \/>\nMaturity Date\t: 2044-02-14<br \/>\nMaturity Price  : 20.91<br \/>\nEvaluated at bid price : 20.91<br \/>\nBid-YTW : 4.43 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SLF.PR.G<\/td>\n<td>FixedReset<\/td>\n<td>1.58 %<\/td>\n<td>YTW SCENARIO<br \/>\nMaturity Type   : Hard Maturity<br \/>\nMaturity Date\t: 2025-01-31<br \/>\nMaturity Price  : 25.00<br \/>\nEvaluated at bid price : 22.50<br \/>\nBid-YTW : 4.47 %<\/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>Shares<br \/>Traded<\/td>\n<td>Notes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>RY.PR.Z<\/td>\n<td>FixedReset<\/td>\n<td>147,720<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=24330\">Recent new issue<\/a>.<br \/>\nYTW SCENARIO<br \/>\nMaturity Type   : Limit Maturity<br \/>\nMaturity Date\t: 2044-02-14<br \/>\nMaturity Price  : 23.19<br \/>\nEvaluated at bid price : 25.15<br \/>\nBid-YTW : 3.76 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>NA.PR.S<\/td>\n<td>FixedReset<\/td>\n<td>131,120<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=24402\">Recent new issue<\/a>.<br \/>\nYTW SCENARIO<br \/>\nMaturity Type   : Limit Maturity<br \/>\nMaturity Date\t: 2044-02-14<br \/>\nMaturity Price  : 23.18<br \/>\nEvaluated at bid price : 25.09<br \/>\nBid-YTW : 3.94 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MFC.PR.C<\/td>\n<td>Deemed-Retractible<\/td>\n<td>83,399<\/td>\n<td>Nesbitt crossed blocks of 60,000 and 20,000 at 21.25.<br \/>\nYTW SCENARIO<br \/>\nMaturity Type   : Hard Maturity<br \/>\nMaturity Date\t: 2025-01-31<br \/>\nMaturity Price  : 25.00<br \/>\nEvaluated at bid price : 21.25<br \/>\nBid-YTW : 6.57 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BNS.PR.Z<\/td>\n<td>FixedReset<\/td>\n<td>54,770<\/td>\n<td>RBC crossed 50,000 at 23.74.<br \/>\nYTW SCENARIO<br \/>\nMaturity Type   : Hard Maturity<br \/>\nMaturity Date\t: 2022-01-31<br \/>\nMaturity Price  : 25.00<br \/>\nEvaluated at bid price : 23.77<br \/>\nBid-YTW : 3.94 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SLF.PR.D<\/td>\n<td>Deemed-Retractible<\/td>\n<td>30,664<\/td>\n<td>Nesbitt crossed 25,000 at 21.05.<br \/>\nYTW SCENARIO<br \/>\nMaturity Type   : Hard Maturity<br \/>\nMaturity Date\t: 2025-01-31<br \/>\nMaturity Price  : 25.00<br \/>\nEvaluated at bid price : 21.06<br \/>\nBid-YTW : 6.60 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>RY.PR.R<\/td>\n<td>FixedReset<\/td>\n<td>27,857<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=23997\">Called for Redemption 2014-2-24 at $25<\/a>.<br \/>\nYTW SCENARIO<br \/>\nMaturity Type   : Call<br \/>\nMaturity Date\t: 2014-03-26<br \/>\nMaturity Price  : 25.00<br \/>\nEvaluated at bid price : 24.98<br \/>\nBid-YTW : 5.48 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan='4'>There were 21 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table border='1'>\n<tr>\n<td colspan='3'><strong>Wide Spread Highlights<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Issue<\/td>\n<td>Index<\/td>\n<td>Quote Data and Yield Notes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BAM.PR.G<\/td>\n<td>FixedFloater<\/td>\n<td>Quote: 19.98 &#8211; 20.46<br \/>\nSpot Rate  :  0.4800<br \/>\nAverage  :  0.3406<\/p>\n<p>YTW SCENARIO<br \/>\nMaturity Type   : Limit Maturity<br \/>\nMaturity Date\t: 2044-02-14<br \/>\nMaturity Price  : 25.00<br \/>\nEvaluated at bid price : 19.98<br \/>\nBid-YTW : 4.34 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MFC.PR.F<\/td>\n<td>FixedReset<\/td>\n<td>Quote: 22.42 &#8211; 22.83<br \/>\nSpot Rate  :  0.4100<br \/>\nAverage  :  0.3110<\/p>\n<p>YTW SCENARIO<br \/>\nMaturity Type   : Hard Maturity<br \/>\nMaturity Date\t: 2025-01-31<br \/>\nMaturity Price  : 25.00<br \/>\nEvaluated at bid price : 22.42<br \/>\nBid-YTW : 4.64 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BNS.PR.B<\/td>\n<td>FloatingReset<\/td>\n<td>Quote: 24.59 &#8211; 24.84<br \/>\nSpot Rate  :  0.2500<br \/>\nAverage  :  0.1637<\/p>\n<p>YTW SCENARIO<br \/>\nMaturity Type   : Hard Maturity<br \/>\nMaturity Date\t: 2022-01-31<br \/>\nMaturity Price  : 25.00<br \/>\nEvaluated at bid price : 24.59<br \/>\nBid-YTW : 2.76 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>CIU.PR.A<\/td>\n<td>Perpetual-Discount<\/td>\n<td>Quote: 21.55 &#8211; 21.82<br \/>\nSpot Rate  :  0.2700<br \/>\nAverage  :  0.1921<\/p>\n<p>YTW SCENARIO<br \/>\nMaturity Type   : Limit Maturity<br \/>\nMaturity Date\t: 2044-02-14<br \/>\nMaturity Price  : 21.55<br \/>\nEvaluated at bid price : 21.55<br \/>\nBid-YTW : 5.36 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BAM.PF.D<\/td>\n<td>Perpetual-Discount<\/td>\n<td>Quote: 20.35 &#8211; 20.68<br \/>\nSpot Rate  :  0.3300<br \/>\nAverage  :  0.2575<\/p>\n<p>YTW SCENARIO<br \/>\nMaturity Type   : Limit Maturity<br \/>\nMaturity Date\t: 2044-02-14<br \/>\nMaturity Price  : 20.35<br \/>\nEvaluated at bid price : 20.35<br \/>\nBid-YTW : 6.12 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SLF.PR.F<\/td>\n<td>FixedReset<\/td>\n<td>Quote: 25.54 &#8211; 25.72<br \/>\nSpot Rate  :  0.1800<br \/>\nAverage  :  0.1080<\/p>\n<p>YTW SCENARIO<br \/>\nMaturity Type   : Call<br \/>\nMaturity Date\t: 2014-06-30<br \/>\nMaturity Price  : 25.00<br \/>\nEvaluated at bid price : 25.54<br \/>\nBid-YTW : 2.18 %<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing happened today. It was a positive day for the Canadian preferred share market, with PerpetualDiscounts up 7bp, FixedResets winning 10bp and DeemedRetractibles gaining 6bp. The Performance Highlights table is a little longer than usual, &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-24451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24451","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=24451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}