Foreigners Rush To Grab Canadian Bonds
October 18th, 2010 Posted in What's HappeningWhat’s Happening – October 18, 2010 Edition
Google Price Index – Financial Times reports that Google is working on a real-time index to measure inflation. GPI or Google Price Index uses web shopping data using online sources. According to Google, GPI is not a replacement for the CPI and Google is undecided whether to publish it.
Foreigners Rush To Grab Canadian Bonds – Statistics Canada reports that foreign investors snapped up $11.1 billion of Canadian securities in August with the majority of it going into bonds. Federal government bonds attracted $3.2 billion and private corporate bonds attracted $5.3 billion of foreign money.
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