With a shortage of supply and diversification, local fund managers are battling over what few maple issues there are Source: Financial Post The world’s largest banks are breathing life into the maple bond market after years of malaise in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Morgan Stanley sold $1 billion of bonds in the Canadian…
The Citi Tech for Integrity Challenge (T4I) has a single goal: to encourage technology innovators from around the world to create cutting-edge solutions to promote integrity, accountability and transparency in the public sector and beyond Source: PYMNTS.com While much has been said and written about the power of technology and its power to build a better…
Despite prospects of a U.S. repatriation-tax holiday, the cash-rich Apple is planning to sell $10 billion of bonds in its first trip to the bond market in 2017 Source: Investor’s Business Daily Apple is selling $10 billion of notes in its first trip to the bond market in six months, becoming the second cash-rich technology company…
With $90 billion of green bond issuance last year, it is expected that other sovereign countries, after France, will follow suit Source: Bloomberg After Paris hosted the 2015 Climate Change Accord, it’s fitting that France is pioneering one way in which it might be paid for: green bonds. The country is making its debut appearance in…
Source: The Financial Revolutionist When the big data boom grabbed headlines in the early 2000’s, it was because the high-tech industry allocated R&D efforts to develop new data-driven applications for their businesses. Out of these developments came the rise of predictive analytics. It should be noted that predictive analytics represents a different methodology from the more…
Although bond bears believe that the future holds lower bond prices, experts believe they are bound to be disappointed once again. Source: Bloomberg The New Yorker magazine once ran a cartoon depicting two politicians sitting in an office in the shadow of the Capitol, with a man behind the desk saying, “Those who ignore history are…
Trump’s “big border tax,” if adopted, could hurt trade and millions of workers within Canada Source: Ted Carmichael Global Macro With this tweet on January 5, President-elect Donald Trump got the attention of not only of Toyota and Mexico, but also a few astute Canadians. The realization began to dawn on them that Trump’s promise to…
Along with a decline in liquidity, issuers of securities also noted the greater degree of difficulty they had in gauging the market and pricing new issues of benchmark bonds. They also noted the trend of investors demanding larger, more liquid benchmark bonds. Source: Wizard-At-Odds The BIS released their quarterly review at the beginning of December. In…
The Green bond market – a market used to raise funds for environmental projects – is on track to achieve growth in 2017, as volumes doubled this past year. The green bond market seems to be unphased by the scrutiny of climate change by US Present-elect, Donald Trump, over the past months. Source: The Globe and…
The 2016 bull market was one of the largest in over eight centuries. A reversal through inflation could cause this bubble to burst. If it does, it will be worse than in 1994, when global government bonds suffered the biggest annual loss on record Source: Bloomberg Paul Schmelzing, a PhD candidate at Harvard University and a…
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, ENGLAND, February 27, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/
