{"id":4017,"date":"2008-11-17T18:49:40","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T22:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2008-11-17T18:49:40","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T22:49:40","slug":"gpapra-downgraded-to-p-5-by-sp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=4017","title":{"rendered":"GPA.PR.A Downgraded to P-5 by S&amp;P"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gatehouse Capital <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatehousecapital.ca\/press\/newsRelease.php?id=45\">has announced<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Standard &#038; Poor&#8217;s Ratings Services lowered the rating of Global Credit Pref Corp.&#8217;s (TSX:GPA.PR.A) preferred shares to P-5 on November 14 and they remain on CreditWatch with negative implications. The rating on the preferred shares of Global Credit Pref Corp. mirrors the lowering of the rating on the $48,031,000 fixed-rate static portfolio credit linked note issued by The Toronto-Dominion Bank to CCC Watch\/Neg.<\/p>\n<p>The Company has exposure to the credit linked note issued by The Toronto-Dominion Bank and held by Global Credit Trust, the return on which is linked to the credit performance of 124 reference entities.<\/p>\n<p>The preferred shares are listed for trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol GPA.PR.A<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>GPA.PR.A was placed on Watch-Negative following the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=3194\">WaMu Credit Event<\/a>. There are 1.5-million shares outstanding, closing at 2.53-95 today. The NAV was $4.38 as of October 31 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatehousecapital.ca\/products\/index.php\">according to Gatehouse<\/a>; shares outstanding are down slightly from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatehousecapital.ca\/documents\/SEMI_2008_GCPC.pdf\">1,537,267 reported June 30<\/a>. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatehousecapital.ca\/documents\/gcpcProspectusE.pdf\">prospectus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Preferred Shares may be surrendered at any time for retraction but will be retracted only<br \/>\non the last day of the month (a \u201cValuation Date\u201d) commencing October 31, 2005. Preferred Shares surrendered for retraction by a Holder at least five Business Days prior to a Valuation Date will be retracted on such Valuation Date and such Holder will receive payment on or before the tenth Business Day following such Valuation Date. On a retraction, Holders will be entitled to receive a retraction price per share (the \u201cPreferred Share Retraction Price\u201d) equal to 95% of the net asset value per Preferred Share determined as of the relevant Valuation Date, less $0.75.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>GPA.PR.A is not tracked by HIMIPref&trade;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gatehouse Capital has announced: Standard &#038; Poor&#8217;s Ratings Services lowered the rating of Global Credit Pref Corp.&#8217;s (TSX:GPA.PR.A) preferred shares to P-5 on November 14 and they remain on CreditWatch with negative implications. The rating &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017","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=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}