{"id":358,"date":"2006-12-01T22:31:50","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T02:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2006-12-01T22:31:50","modified_gmt":"2006-12-02T02:31:50","slug":"december-1-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"December 1, 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>4.25%<\/td>\n<td>4.26%<\/td>\n<td>38,164<\/td>\n<td>16.95<\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>+0.5666%<\/td>\n<td>1,026.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Fixed-Floater<\/td>\n<td>4.81%<\/td>\n<td>3.85%<\/td>\n<td>100,186<\/td>\n<td>6.64<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>-0.2015%<\/td>\n<td>1,028.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Floater<\/td>\n<td>4.46%<\/td>\n<td>-23.73%<\/td>\n<td>62,671<\/td>\n<td>6.58<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>+0.0079%<\/td>\n<td>1,038.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Op. Retract<\/td>\n<td>4.63%<\/td>\n<td>-1.13%<\/td>\n<td>83,641<\/td>\n<td>2.22<\/td>\n<td>17<\/td>\n<td>-0.0015%<\/td>\n<td>1,032.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Split-Share<\/td>\n<td>5.24%<\/td>\n<td>3.22%<\/td>\n<td>156,377<\/td>\n<td>2.73<\/td>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>-0.4350%<\/td>\n<td>1,035.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Interest Bearing<\/td>\n<td>6.90%<\/td>\n<td>5.69%<\/td>\n<td>72,227<\/td>\n<td>3.88<\/td>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>+0.2845%<\/td>\n<td>1,024.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Perpetual-Premium<\/td>\n<td>5.02%<\/td>\n<td>3.33%<\/td>\n<td>263,313<\/td>\n<td>4.43<\/td>\n<td>51<\/td>\n<td>+0.0448%<\/td>\n<td>1,050.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Perpetual-Discount<\/td>\n<td>4.58%<\/td>\n<td>4.58%<\/td>\n<td>1,010,196<\/td>\n<td>14.72<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>+0.0751%<\/td>\n<td>1,047.2<\/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>LBS.PR.A<\/td>\n<td>SplitShare<\/td>\n<td>-1.0176%<\/td>\n<td>Surprising, since I consider this issue rather attractive, now with a bid-YTW of 4.19% based on a bid of $10.70 and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefshares.com\/glossary.html#hardMaturity\">hardMaturity<\/a> 2013-11-29 at $10.00.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>BSD.PR.A<\/td>\n<td>InterestBearing<\/td>\n<td>+2.0387%<\/td>\n<td>Still with an attractive pre-tax bid-YTW of 6.00%, based on a bid of $10.01 and a hard maturity at $10.00 2015-3-31. Still no word on the results of the annual retraction privilege, exercisable 2006-11-30.<\/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.I<\/td>\n<td>PerpetualPremium<\/td>\n<td>152,355<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=290\">Recent new issue<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>RY.PR.C<\/td>\n<td>PerpetualPremium<\/td>\n<td>58,905<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=242\">Recent new issue<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>SLF.PR.D<\/td>\n<td>PerpetualDiscount<\/td>\n<td>47,519<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=230\">Recent blue-light special<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MFC.PR.C<\/td>\n<td>PerpetualPremium<\/td>\n<td>43,859<\/td>\n<td>National Bank crossed 31,800 at $25.04. The issue now has a pre-tax bid-YTW of 4.50%, based on a bid of $25.00 and either a call at $25.00 2015-4-18 or a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefshares.com\/glossary.html#limitMaturity\">limitMaturity<\/a>. Which isn&#8217;t too shabby, seeing that the MFC.PR.B, a similar issue, has a pre-tax YTW of 4.30% based on a bid of $25.53 and a call 2014-4-18 at $25.00.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HSB.PR.D<\/td>\n<td>PerpetualPremium<\/td>\n<td>31,895<\/td>\n<td>National crossed 30,000 at $26.90. This issue has a pre-tax bid-YTW of 4.06%, base on either a call at $25.25 2014-1-30, or a call at $25.00 2015-1-30.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\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-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","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=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}