Scotia Capital has well-respected research capabilities in fixed income and economics. We offer strong and timely coverage for Canadian and U.S. economic events as well as analysis, forecasts and recommendations to help hedge fund managers make informed investment decisions and optimize total return performance. We also do timely and comprehensive research of the Canadian corporate bond market, with analysis of companies, earnings and events that affect bond holder performance.

Scotia Economics provides in-depth research on economic, capital markets and policy developments in both domestic and international markets including macroeconomic developments, currency and capital market trends, commodity and industry performance, as well as monetary, fiscal and public policy issues.

Specific research capabilities include:

• Daily economic, financial market and corporate bond analysis
• Daily strategy and intraday technical analysis of the North American cash and futures markets with recommendations with respect to overall market direction including key support and resistance levels, the shape of the yield curves as well as Canada-US spread trades
• Daily analysis of events in Canadian investment grade corporate bonds
• Daily relative value analysis and trade recommendations on Government and Swap markets
• Weekly outlooks for economic events/financial market forecasts and strategy
• Company-specific weekly corporate bond analysis
• Monthly debt market outlook strategy report