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New tool for institutionals

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... robust, intuitive and designed to integrate clients' data within their business processes. RBC Dexia, owned by Royal Bank of Canada and Dexia, is one of the largest providers of institutional risk and investment analytics services in Canada, and has ...

CB thoughts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... cuts since World War II and the global economy cools." Good now, convulsions later. But back in North America, the Bank of Canada raised interest rates the same week as the BOJ and the BOE kept theirs on ice. The BOC increased rates by 25 bps to 1 per ...

Going nowhere fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
... voila! We have confusion. Try reconciling these for instance: Japan revving up its quantitative easing versus the Bank of Canada and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's interest rate hikes; speculation of a slowdown in China and the Chinese property market ...

More worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... construction spending increased by 2.7 per cent - more than forecasts for a flat reading. And did you read about the Bank of Canada doubling its interest rate from 0.25 per cent to 0.5 per cent yesterday? Can't find fault with that. Not with reports ...

Trillion dollar kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
... of Japan, will allow them to provide the "full allotment" of US dollars as needed. A separate swap line with the Bank of Canada will support as much as $30 billion, the Fed said. The swaps were authorised through January 2011." With all guns blazing ...

Risk-free no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
... in Mooresville, North Carolina, drugmaker Abbott Laboratories of Abbott Park, Illinois, and Toronto-based Royal Bank of Canada have also been below Treasuries, Trace data show." How could this be? Aren't corporate bonds supposed to be priced according ...

While we wait for payrolls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... a decade. Thus, despite keeping interest rates steady at 0.25 per cent last night, financial markets expect the Bank of Canada (BoC) is poised to lift rates soon. Particularly after commenting that the growth and inflation figures are "slightly higher ...

Hasting sells off HUT stake

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
... holding in the Hastings Utilities Trust. RBC Capital Markets is the corporate and investment banking arm of Royal Bank of Canada. With over 4,000 employees, RBC Capital Markets is active globally in fixed income, foreign exchange, infrastructure finance ...

Top 30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
... US -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley; Canada -- Royal Bank of Canada. Europe: UK - Barclays, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Standard Chartered; Switzerland -- Credit Suisse, UBS; France -- BNP Paribas ...

Joined at the hip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2009
... remains in dire straits. Canada's official interest rates remain at a record low 0.25 per cent six months after the Bank of Canada (BoC) took them there back in April this year. Like the rest of the world, the Canadian economy have been experiencing ...