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Episodes
35 episodes
Listen to the April 2026 Corporate Bond Newsletter
Oil markets were rocked following President Trump’s initial strikes on Iran. Global benchmark levels quickly rose over 60% in price, surpassing US$100/barrel for the first time since July 2022. As the U.S. and Iran grapple over the Strait of Ho...
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Listen to the April 2026 Market Observer
The financial and energy markets have run aground in the Strait of Hormuz. We and most knowledgeable experts had no idea that the perceived acclaim, ease and success of Trump’s Venezuelan adventure would lure him into trying his hand at Iran ag...
Listen to the January 2026 Corporate Bond Newsletter
The Blue Jays captured the hearts of Canadians this past season with an improbable run to the World Series. And while it ended with the heartbreak of a Game 7 extra-innings loss, the Jays wasted no time in their efforts to run it back, storming...
Listen to the January 2026 Market Observer
Last year was a volatile one for the financial markets as unpredictable Donald Trump entered the White House in January. Expecting the returning President Trump to bring hot markets with his election, as in his first term, investors soon learne...
Listen to the October 2025 Market Observer
We last left you in early July with the observation that the financial markets now seemed to thrive on and reward uncertainty. The equity and credit markets had plunged in March on the initial economic fears over the Trump tariffs and then rebo...
Listen to the October 2025 Corporate Bond Newsletter
Fear and uncertainty moved aside this summer, and optimism is now abound. Central Bankers are cutting rates, equity markets are touching new highs, and the Toronto Blue Jays are headed to the World Series! In credit markets, we also continue to...
Listen to the July 2025 Corporate Bond Newsletter
Interest rates have been on the rise since the end of the first quarter, particularly in the long-end of the curve. From March 31st until time of publication, Canadian long bonds have risen 66 basis points (bps) while their American counterpart...
Listen to the July 2025 Market Observer
The theme of our previous April 2025 Market Observer was that only a fool would try to predict what would happen to the financial markets and the global economies aft...
Listen to the October 2024 Market Observer
We were writing about the confused state of political and economic affairs in June and wondered, like the Marvin Gaye song title, “What’s Going On?”. We marvelled at how the financial markets were ignoring any bad news in their haste t...
Listen to the July 2024 Corporate Bond Newsletter
We are starting to see more and more credit opportunities emerging. Even though default rates remain relatively low, the increase in distressed transactions points to increasing stress among highly levered companies as interest rates remain hig...
Listen to the July 2024 Market Observer
"What’s Going On” was the plaintive refrain and title of Marvin Gaye’s 1971 hit song about the controversial Vietnam War and the resulting societal and political upset in the United States. His song of confusion and disappointment seems as rele...
Listen to the April 2024 Corporate Bond Newsletter
Like George W. Bush standing on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln in May 2003, the market appears to have hoisted the “Mission Accomplished” banner on this monetary tightening cycle. Risk premiums have dropped, borrowers have renewed access t...
Listen to the April 2024 Market Observer
The so-called experts who called for dismal markets in 2023 were nowhere to be found in the 2024 New Year prognostications. Happy days were here again, and nobody wanted to spoil the fortunes from soaring markets that had been handed to investo...
Listen to the January 2024 Corporate Bond Newsletter
Corporate bond markets raced higher in the fourth quarter as inflation continued to decline, labour market strength showed signs of moderating and Federal Reserve policymakers signaled their rate hiking efforts may be coming to an end.
Listen to the January 2024 Market Observer
Generations of finance students have been taught Efficient Markets theory, but we have always begged to differ. What happened in 2023 to the financial markets and the economy should give anyone pause about how efficient the financial markets re...
Listen to the October 2023 Corporate Bond Newsletter
It was a cruel summer in the bond market as interest rates climbed swiftly higher. Yields across both Canadian and U.S. government curves jumped, hitting levels not seen since 2007.
Listen to the October 2023 Market Observer
The early 2023 “Will They, Won’t They” and “They Should” bond market consensus of lower interest rate prognostication morphed into a mid-year and more pleading “Why Won’t They??” lower interest rates. It has now grudg...
Listen to the July 2023 Corporate Bond Newsletter
Canadians rejoiced the dramatic victory of Nick Taylor who became the first Canuck to win the Canadian Open since 1954. Meanwhile, Canadian bond investors are celebrating a victory of their own, with the return of positive real bond yields. Lis...
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