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TREASURIES-Yields jump as Bernanke remarks unnerve investors
Wed May 22, 2013 3:07pm EDT. * Benchmark yields jump above 2 percent on Bernanke's QE comments. * Fed buys $1.25 bln in long-dated Treasuries.
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| 941.42 | +2.01 | (0.21%) | |
| 15,277.51 | -110.07 | (-0.72%) | ||
| 1,650.17 | -18.99 | (-1.14%) |
Top stories
The government's efforts to cool the housing market will have a negative impact on the economy and the range of industries that depend on house sales - everything from mortgage financing to furniture and appliance sales - warned the Canadian ...
MONTREAL - The maker of Ski-Doo snowmobiles says its initial public offering has been priced at $21.50 per share - giving the company a market value of about $2.5 billion.
WASHINGTON - The American political brawl over the approval of TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline shifted into overdrive on Wednesday as Republicans in the House of Representatives made yet another attempt to take the decision out of U.S.
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Undeterred by record-high housing prices and bolstered by low borrowing costs, nearly half of Canadian home owners plan to buy a property in the next five years, although intentions vary sharply from city to city, a poll released Wednesday has found.
Trends
| Popular searches on Google | Change | Mkt Cap | |
| DI.UN | Dundee International Real Estate Inves | -0.09% | 777.68M |
Bank of Canada daily digest
| Money markets | Change | |
| Overnight rate | 1.00% | -0.0019 |
| Corporate paper, 1 month | 1.12% | 0.00 |
| Treasury bill, 1 month | 0.950% | 0.00 |
| Inflation | ||
| Total consumer price index | 0.400% | -0.6000 |
| Interest rates | ||
| 10 year bond | 2.34% | 0.00 |
| Prime business rate | 3.00% | 0.00 |
| Conventional mortgage, 5 yrs | 5.14% | 0.00 |