Standard & Poor’s today announced that market data for the S&P/TSX Canadian Bond Index, Canada’s first independent, multi-dealer priced fixed income index, is now offered by TSX Datalinx.

TSX Datalinx offers S&P/TSX Canadian Bond Index data by email, FTP and over the web. Subscribers can access daily risk and return files for over 300 standard sub-indices comprising the S&P/TSX Canadian Bond Index, as well as information about all the bonds in the index portfolio.

“The global reach facilitated by TSX Datalinx will help the S&P/TSX Canadian Bond Index become a widely accessible benchmark of Canadian bond market performance,” said Steve Rive, vice president of Canadian Index Services at Standard & Poor’s.

The index includes 891 issues with a total market value of over $638 billion on Aug. 31. It’s designed to broadly represent the market performance of investment-grade bonds issued by Canadian companies and by issuers in the government sector. Calculated daily and rebalanced monthly, the index is a market value-weighted average of total bond returns which can be divided into over 300 standard sub-indices based on credit rating, issuer, maturity and industry sector (corporates). A bond must have a minimum of two price providers to be eligible for inclusion in the index.