Loading ...Looks like I was wrong about BCE Inc options being mispriced as the stock did trade higher on Monday but the high was only $38.12 Cdn. I thought BCE would trade between $38-39 Cdn, but instead the trading range was closer much closer to $37. Since the Telecom sector isn’t something I’m familiar […]
Friday was an interesting day for BCE Inc (T-BCE, N-BCE) as the Supreme Court of Canada was scheduled to make a ruling either to allow the take over to proceed or to allow the bond holders appeal to succeed. BCE is the target of a friendly takeover at C$42.75. The ruling was scheduled […]
Background:
Destiny Resource Services (T-DSC) provides services (such as seismic surveying, mapping and line clearing) to the oil and gas sector. The majority of its business is in Canada but it is expanding in the US. Business is highly dependent upon the price of natural gas and the amount of exploration for gas. Business is […]
Economics:
The US ISM (a manufacturing index) in May showed some slight improvement, but still showed the sector was contracting with a reading of 49.6 up from 48.6…any reading less than 50 indicates contraction. Not surprising, the employment sector had another weak reading of 45.5 and the prices paid component hit an 87% which is […]
Oil:
It was a big day in oil today as the price dropped over $4 to $126. It wasn’t the weekly US oil inventory that caused the drop as the volumes dropped almost 10 million barrels from the previous week; this was the largest drop since the 2004 hurricane season. The drop in inventories was […]
In many parts of the world such as the U.S. and just about any country that manages its currency (e.g. China, Latin America, Russia, OPEC nations etc) have seen inflation continue to climb. With inflation being so high and interest rates being low, the returns available on some fixed income investments (e.g. bonds) have a […]
