RE: BMO is manipulating the Ds Lion: Are you a conspiracy theorist? For a guy that reads and writes so much, and analyzes things to death, and has occasionally demonstrated some amount of intelligence (aside from random religious-themed gibberish and insistence about getting $25 for the pref As), why does this shock you so much every time it happens? We are talking about chump change!
If I had $14,045 and really wanted those D's I could easily buy them through my trading account at CIBC - which is exactly what someone has done. Sure it would take a few trades to get all of the available shares - and it may even take me a few days until I get bored and decide that I've got enough now.
Lion - What do you always think that it is a big banking conspiracy!?! Oh no! The big bad banks are driving the prices up and down to pit each common shareholder class against each other. There must be "something more going on here". Give it a break!
Jeezz, it doesn't take much to be a market maker on these prefs.