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Alberta Premier Alison Redford speaks at a joint news conference with New Brunswick Premier David Alward after the two met in Calgary, Alta., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013.
Alberta Premier Alison Redford speaks at a joint news conference with New Brunswick Premier David Alward after the two met in Calgary, Alta., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013.
(Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press)

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Bond markets mostly unfazed by Alberta’s fiscal woes

Alberta’s got fiscal problems? Bond investors don’t seem to mind much.

Despite all the rhetoric about the government’s finances in such a rough environment for Canadian crude, Alberta’s 10-year bonds still trade at the tightest spread to the federal benchmark, and they haven’t seen a drastic selloff since Premier Alison Redford sounded the alarm on her provincial coffers.