Traduction de «Global foreign bond market » (Anglais → Français) :

It focuses not so much on exchange markets or the volatility that we have all seen recently in the Canadian dollar exchange rate, but on global fixed-income markets, bonds markets, which have shown quite a bit of volatility recently.

Since the restrictions limit foreign equity participation, the bulk of our capital has come in the form of public debt from the bond market, foreign bond markets, primarily in the U.S. We could not possibly raise sufficient equity in Canada, given our risk profile as a competitor.

There is considerable support for a global and long term approach to the subject of security of supply - both in terms of looking at the totality of energy supply, not compartmentalising the analysis into sectors, and including energy demand management; and in terms of following the global picture, i.e. linking energy policy decisions into wider international developments and broader policy issues, including foreign policy, internal market, transport, agriculture, environment, education, empl ...[+++]oyment, international poverty issues etc.

My concern is that notwithstanding all that, if you get a very strong CEO and you get a very strong investment-oriented, gung-ho group of people in the derivatives markets, and the foreign exchange markets, and bond markets and other securitized markets, and perhaps some other credit markets as well, it's very difficult, even with all these procedures, for the directors to deal with them and stand up to them.

Those transactions which currently appear in List C are as follows : a) long-term credits (five years and more) related to commercial transactions or to the provision of services in which a resident is participating : as the current liberalization obligations already cover short- and medium- term credits, it seems logical to extend them to long-term credits, which are also involved in the free movements of goods and services; - 3 - b) acquisition by residents of foreign securities and by non- residents of domestic securities : the current liberaliza- tion obligations cover only securities traded on a stock exchange and provide for excep ...[+++]tions for the acquisition of units of unit trusts and for the acquisition by residents of foreign bonds issued on a foreign market and denominated in national currency.

Those transactions which currently appear in List C are as follows : a) long-term credits (five years and more) related to commercial transactions or to the provision of services in which a resident is participating : as the current liberalization obligations already cover short- and medium- term credits, it seems logical to extend them to long-term credits, which are also involved in the free movements of goods and services; - 3 - b) acquisition by residents of foreign securities and by non- residents of domestic securities : the current liberaliza- tion obligations cover only securities traded on a stock exchange and provide for excep ...[+++]tions for the acquisition of units of unit trusts and for the acquisition by residents of foreign bonds issued on a foreign market and denominated in national currency.