Returns in Canada’s bond market exceeded the rest of the world in 2010, gaining the most in five years, and may outperform again this year amid record foreign purchases of the nation’s fixed-income securities.
The Bank of America Merrill Lynch Canada Broad Market Index, which tracks 1,150 federal, provincial and corporate bonds with a par value [...]
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Canadian bonds beat world
January 8th, 2011 by Financial Writer
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more...Carney, Volcker see long haul to recovery
November 20th, 2010 by Financial Writer
The world economy faces a long, hard slog toward recovery and could slide into deflation and financial instability if leaders fail to deliver on promises of reform, top policy markers said on Friday.
At a conference in Calgary, White House special adviser Paul Volcker warned it would likely take years for the American economy to [...]
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Financial reform diluted with bankers in mix
March 24th, 2010 by Financial Writer
For all the proposals stuffed into its 1,336 pages, the financial reform bill that’s headed to the full Senate soon will change very little for the banks that brought us the most dire financial system crisis since the Great Depression, critics say.
When proposed a year ago by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., the [...]
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Markets look for political leadership
March 3rd, 2010 by Financial Writer
The fundamental, and at times, passionate debate about sovereign debt is a predictable part of the sequencing of the financial crisis rumbling through the West. The crisis has exposed three major fault lines in our fiscal systems. First, it broke the banking system, the fixing of which has extracted a heavy cost. Second, it shocked [...]
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