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...Fed sees little risk of inflation in weak economy
November 19th, 2009 by Financial Writer
Senior U.S. Federal Reserve officials said on Thursday inflation is not an immediate threat as a weak economic recovery and a grim outlook for jobs keep price pressures in check.
Charles Plosser, head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and Richard Fisher, his counterpart at the Dallas Fed, said the U.S. recovery was underway but [...]
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