From the monthly archives:
You don’t have to be an adherent of peak oil theory to be bullish on oil and oil stocks over the next two, five, ten years. Simple math shows that the world’s energy needs are rising – even with the entrance of electric cars into the North American market. Individual stock investors are wise to [...]
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Australia just became the first major central bank to raise its interest rate (today, October 6, 2009) since the beginning of the financial crisis of 2008-2009. From 3.00%, it raised rates 25 basis points to 3.25%. So what? What does this mean, you might be asking?
Below I’ll take a look at some of the effects [...]
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We’re still waiting…. If the traditional September stock market pullback doesn’t happen, conventional wisdom says we should look for it in October. October, after all, is historically just as stormy – memories of the crash of ‘87 and even the big post-Lehman DJIA collapse keep investors cautious.
Caution is even more advisable when you’ve got the [...]
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Whether we’re in a bull or bear market, it always helps to have a portion of your portfolio in defensive stocks, so-called because of the relative protection they offer from price volatility and many business and market risks. This is not to say that there are no risks involved with defensive stocks. Any company is [...]
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With the US dollar in a general bear market decline since about 2001, more and more speculation and trading is beginning to reflect lower expectations for the greenback as a result of the US Fed’s unprecedented levels of “quantitative easing” and fiscal stimulus.
This has Canadians enjoying the resulting higher values in the loonie and greater [...]
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And not just for investors in Ontario. Because of the way mutual funds are sold and fees gathered, the new, higher tax proposals would affect all mutual fund investors in Canada.
But recently, Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty said there might be some modifications to the Ontario government’s plan to levy the new 13% harmonized sales tax [...]
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