From the monthly archives:
I’m an extremely cautious bull on the current markets. Cautious, because, if a few criteria are met, the mini bull market (or bear market rally, if you prefer) we’ve seen since March 2009 could easily tip over and provide the catalyst for the hypothetical “double-dip recession.”
Commentators have recently been pointing out the fact that the [...]
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Forget about trying to give up a daily latte if it really makes your morning or is an essential part of your coffee shop networking. It’s easier to just save money doing it.
Here are two basic tips for making the most of your latte money at Starbucks.
Misto Instead of Latte: Save $0.50
Your latte is one [...]
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Canadian business income trusts won’t all turn into pumpkins at the strike of midnight on December 31, 2010. In most cases, you will be aware of what will be happening long before that.
I’m not a taxation expert, but I’ll cover a few of the scenarios I know about here. Consider these points before you think [...]
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There are two short-term advantages to a weak US dollar.
The primary advantage of purposefully driving the value of the US Dollar down, as Bernanke and Geithner both know, is that it makes US exports more attractively priced for foreign buyers. This, of course, helps the US economy in theory (if more goods are purchased as [...]
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Ever wondered what a hedge fund really does, or how it works? Think you should teach yourself some hedging strategies for your own portfolio? It’s time to take a look at Hedgeable.com, “the world’s first “hedge fund for the common man.” Hedgeable is a small start-up attempting to radically shake up the trillion dollar investment [...]
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If you want to quickly analyse the broad spectrum of the Canadian economy, take a look at the S&P/TSX 60. While not the full representation of Canadian companies that make up the S&P/TSX Composite Index (although these companies are also represented in the Composite Index), it is nevertheless easier to manage and still provides a [...]
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Last Friday, the final trading day of October 2009, saw triple-digit losses following the previous day’s excellent U.S. GDP numbers. Are traders and institutional investors just taking money off the table for some profits? Or will this be the beginning of the retrenchment that we didn’t see in September or October?
One thing that is for [...]
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