From the monthly archives:

August 2010

Gold is now itching to break through its 6-week high.  Q4 is usually the strongest quarter for gold, so you might want to get ready for it.  Remember just six months ago when everyone was talking about the bubble in gold around $1100/oz?
This time last year, you laughed when gold was $950/oz.
But over a period [...]

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Canadian GDP data for the second quarter will be released on Tuesday by Statistics Canada.  Analysts are expecting slower growth than the previous two quarters, in which annualized GDP grew by 6.1% in Q1 (the largest quarterly GDP expansion in a decade) and 4.9% in last year’s Q4.
Comparing these numbers with the revised U.S. GDP [...]

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How often do you stop and think about your investment portfolio and then feel gluttonous or greedy once you turn to read the latest article on the earthquake in Central America or the floods in Pakistan?  How about if you’re checking your stocks on the iPhone and then you walk past someone sitting on the [...]

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CIBC came out with third quarter earnings today and they topped analyst expectations handily, by an additional 13 cents per share over the amount expected.
The big question on Canadian investors’ minds, though, is when CIBC can finally begin raising its dividend again.  Right now CIBC is paying 87 cents a share and has been for [...]

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If you’re a Canadian investor or you follow the commodities market, you’ve heard of BHP Billiton’s hostile takeover proposal for Saskatchewan’s Potash Corporation of Canada (TSX: POT) last week.
BHP Billiton proposed a buyout of Potash at a price of just $130/share. A price significantly lower than the June 2008 highs above $200/share that we saw [...]

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It’s bad enough to initially depend on just one source of income, but it’s even worse to not invest it or diversify it such that you protect it over time.  In other words, there is more than one way to diversify your income.
(1) You can diversify your sources of income so that you have, say, [...]

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So what’s this “Hindenburg Omen” you may have been hearing about lately?  Is it an economic conspiracy theory, or does it really have any value as a leading indicator for a market slowdown?
The Hindenburg Omen is a technical indicator created by the blind mathematician, Jim Miekka, that is supposed to predict financial crashes – and [...]

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