{"id":32288,"date":"2006-09-26T22:53:17","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T02:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=128"},"modified":"2006-09-26T22:53:17","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T02:53:17","slug":"september-26-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=32288","title":{"rendered":"September 26, 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>Current Yield (at bid)<\/td>\n<td>YTW<\/td>\n<td>Average Trading Value<\/td>\n<td>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>4.37%<\/td>\n<td>4.40%<\/td>\n<td>48,744<\/td>\n<td>16.64<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>0.1608%<\/td>\n<td>1,013.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Fixed-Floater<\/td>\n<td>4.89%<\/td>\n<td>3.98%<\/td>\n<td>272,642<\/td>\n<td>8.99<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>0.0594%<\/td>\n<td>1,014.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Floater<\/td>\n<td>4.63%<\/td>\n<td>-18.46%<\/td>\n<td>97,450<\/td>\n<td>8.12<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>0.0199%<\/td>\n<td>1,017.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Op. Retract<\/td>\n<td>4.69%<\/td>\n<td>2.44%<\/td>\n<td>84,419<\/td>\n<td>2.44<\/td>\n<td>18<\/td>\n<td>-0.0139%<\/td>\n<td>1,015.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Split-Share<\/td>\n<td>4.97%<\/td>\n<td>3.07%<\/td>\n<td>60,026<\/td>\n<td>2.67<\/td>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>0.2222%<\/td>\n<td>1,014.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Interest Bearing<\/td>\n<td>6.85%<\/td>\n<td>4.50%<\/td>\n<td>55,555<\/td>\n<td>2.07<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>0.2376%<\/td>\n<td>1,023.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Perpetual-Premium<\/td>\n<td>5.14%<\/td>\n<td>4.01%<\/td>\n<td>176,929<\/td>\n<td>4.14<\/td>\n<td>48<\/td>\n<td>-0.0327%<\/td>\n<td>1,027.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Perpetual-Discount<\/td>\n<td>4.58%<\/td>\n<td>4.60%<\/td>\n<td>331,043<\/td>\n<td>16.23<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>-0.0531%<\/td>\n<td>1,038.5<\/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 colspan=\"4\">There were no index-included issues with major price moves today<\/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>CM.PR.B<\/td>\n<td>PerpetualPremium<\/td>\n<td>257,200<\/td>\n<td>Desjardins crossed 250,000 @ $26.10. With an annual dividend of $1.50, this is a good candidate to be called early next year &#8230; if it is, it will still achieve a pre-tax YTW of 3.71% (worth about 5.19% interest equivalent! Not bad for five-month bank paper!)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BC.PR.E<\/td>\n<td>Scraps<\/td>\n<td>200,000<\/td>\n<td>Every single share was crossed by Scotia, in three tranches, at various times throughout the day, at $25.17. For an issue <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=97\">recently removed from the ratchet index<\/a> due to volume concerns, this has sure been trading a lot lately!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>CM.PR.A<\/td>\n<td>OpRet<\/td>\n<td>182,600<\/td>\n<td>Global crossed 89,200 on a cash basis at $27.21, then &#8216;another&#8217; 89,200 regular settlement at $26.87. Difference of $0.34, dividend is $0.33125, issue went ex-dividend today. Somebody&#8217;s got a capture strategy going!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>FTN.PR.A<\/td>\n<td>SplitShares<\/td>\n<td>115,540<\/td>\n<td>Pre-tax YTW of 3.24% based on the closing bid of $10.45 and a maturity at $10.00 2008-12-01<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>IGM.PR.A<\/td>\n<td>OpRet<\/td>\n<td>65,902<\/td>\n<td>Scotia crossed 48,900 @ 27.80<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>There were nineteen other index-included issues trading over 10,000 shares today.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--c9d5a1f0ea933fa66538c9fb447ba18d--><\/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 Current Yield (at bid) YTW Average Trading Value Mod Dur (YTW) Issues Day&#8217;s Perf. &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-32288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32288","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=32288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}