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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 ...

Expect the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... UK, Canada, New Zealand and South Korea produced no changed in monetary policy last week. Echoing the G-20, the Bank of Canada and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand even went so far as declaring that interest rates would remain at present levels until ...

Good news in inaction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... last week. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), the European Central Bank (ECB), the Bank of England (BoE) and the Bank of Canada (BoC) all held monetary policy meetings last week. And guess what? Not a single central bank announced a reduction in interest ...

Knife falls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
... recession. And because of these persistent problems in the US, another domino appears to be on the brink of falling. The Bank of Canada cut interest rates by 75 basis points last night, taking its benchmark lending rate down to a half century low of ...

The global recession we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
... Central Bank dropped its repo rate to 3.75 percent, the Bank of England cut its base rate to 4.5 per cent, the Bank of Canada to 2.5 per cent, the Swiss National Bank to 2.5 per cent and Sweden's Riksbank to 4.25 per cent. With its benchmark rate at ...

Soup for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
... larger facilities will now support the provision of U.S. dollar liquidity in amounts of up to $30 billion by the Bank of Canada, $80 billion by the Bank of England, $120 billion by the Bank of Japan, $15 billion by Danmarks Nationalbank, $240 billion ...