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Athene Holding LTD (ATH) has announced the issuance of a new fixed-rate reset preferred. The issue will be non-cumulative. This issue will be rated low investment grade by S&P at BBB- A fixed-rate reset preferred will trade with a fixed coupon for…

As noted yesterday New York community banker Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM) is ‘reopening’ a previous issue of preferred stock–it is the 5.50% perpetual issued in January. The company is offering 2 million shares plus an additional 300,000 shares fo…

United Community Banks (UCBI) has priced their previously announced new preferred stock issue. The issue priced at 6.875%. The issue is non-cumulative . Kroll Bond Rating Service has rated the issue BBB-, but none of the big 3 ratings agencies have rat…

New York community banker Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM) has ‘reopened’ a previous preferred issue. The issue they are reopening is the 5.50% Non-cumulative preferred issue (DCOMP) sold in late January. Shares are rated BB- by Fitch. It is not yet kn…

As noted by Chuck P yesterday new issues continue to be dominated by banking companies and today is the same. South eastern community bank United Community Banks (UCBI) has announced an offering of new non-cumulative preferred shares. This bank is smal…

Virginia banker Atlantic Union Bankshares (AUB) has priced their previously announced non cumulative preferred. The coupon will be a fixed rate of 6.875%. Shares will trade today on the OTC grey market under temporary ticker AUBKL. The shares are unrat…

Atlantic Union Bankshares (AUB) has announced an offering of non-cumulative preferred shares. They currently have no other exchange listed preferreds outstanding. The shares will trade under ticker AUBAP on NASDAQ after a short stint on the OTC grey ma…

Most all the folks that frequent this website know that when you are buying and selling preferred stocks and baby bonds it is absolutely NECESSARY to use ‘limit orders’. One of my largest holdings is the Affiliated Managers Convertible ($50 issue) whic…

The S&P500 traded in a range of 2969 to 3068 before closing on Friday at 3044 which is around 3% higher than the previous Friday–party on. The 10 year treasury moved in a range of .648% to .72% before closing at the low of .648%. The Fed Balance S…

Bad news is good news, good news is great news–even no news is good news. So if you run an airline and your load factor goes from down 90% to down just 85% it is great news–I guess. The real question is where will it be next fall? With the FED pumpin…

Tennessee banker Pinnacle Financial Partners (PNFP) has priced the previously announced preferred stock issue. The non-cumulative issue comes to market at a coupon of 6.75%. They have sold 4.8 million shares and there are another 720,000 available for…

New issues are coming fast after the month or two break we had in March and April. Huntington Bancshares (HBAN) has announced a new non cumulative perpetual issue. The issue should be split investment grade–BB+ by Standard and Poors and Baa3 by Moodys…