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The federal government is moving, but the main provider of the products says it’s too early to know what the eventual impact of the proposed legislation will be. One of the government’s main targets is believed to be swap-based ETFs – also known as total return ETFs. These complex products don’t hold any securities directly but deliver the same performance as an index through an agreement – called a total return swap – with a financial institution.
The difference between the yields on 10-year government bonds in the two countries has recently swelled close to its largest level since 1989 . There are various ways to interpret this growing gap, but one reasonable explanation is that investors see considerably stronger prospects for growth in the United States than in Canada. The increasing spread reflects the precipitous decline in Canadian bond yields. In early October, a 10-year Government of Canada bond was yielding a hair under 2.6 per cent. Today, it is paying just more than 1.7 per cent. Ian McGugan reports .
Stock buybacks in the United States hit a record level in 2018 and some legislators in Washington are not happy about it. Companies repurchased more than US$1-trillion worth of shares last year, in part using profits produced by the Trump administration’s big corporate tax cut. That number has angered some U.S. politicians. They expected the tax savings to be plowed back into the economy through increased business investment, job creation and higher wages.
The Liberal government has produced a full life-cycle budget – help for students, for young home buyers, for Gen Xers thinking about buying electric cars and for retirees and those looking ahead to retirement. But the measures for first-time buyers are what really stand out on the personal-finance side. One of them, the First-Time Home Buyer Incentive, looks helpful in a preliminary way.
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