October 31, 2010
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Canadian bank DRIPs are known for discounts of 2-3% on dividend reinvestment through their DRIP plans, but these discounts do fluctuate.
Starting with the November 2010 common dividend, the Bank of Montreal (TSX: BMO) will no longer provide a DRIP discount from the average market price on common shares purchased under the plan.
BMO has said there will [...]
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October 31, 2010
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Two of the largest days for global stock markets are coming up: November 2nd and 3rd. By doing some planning in advance you can position yourself to take advantage of it. Here’s what you should know for trading hours on Monday, November 1.
Three trading tips for the November elections and the announcement of quantitative easing [...]
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October 28, 2010
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A new Rare Earths ETF is on the market today, to take advantage of the coming rare earths bubble as a result of China reducing its rare earth exports, and threatening to reduce rare earth exports, to Japan and other countries.
I’ve written about the top 40+ rare earths in another post, which I encourage you [...]
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October 18, 2010 · 5 comments
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Review of The Inside Job by Charles Ferguson (2010).
Despite the fact that it’s a trite truism that Wall Street is fueled by greed and “greed makes the world – or at least the markets – go round,” it’s merely the tip of the iceberg of moral depravity and social corruption that has been exposed on [...]
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October 15, 2010
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Trading volumes have been historically low and stock markets in a trading range for quite some time now, even taking the brief September rally into consideration (buoyed by the Aug. 27 Jackson Hole speech comments by Bernanke with a view to the necessity for more quantitative easing in the near future).
Any given hour of the [...]
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October 13, 2010
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Foreclosure-gate, Fraudclosure, the foreclosure scandal – you’ve been hearing about this in the news the last few days, but what the heck is the foreclosure-gate scandal, exactly?
Foreclosure-Gate is the New Risk Factor Everyone Should Be Talking About
What Is Foreclosure-Gate?
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Well, there’s two parts to this answer. The first part is the simple fact that Bank of [...]
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October 11, 2010 · 4 comments
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How high gold can go in October and November now that gold prices have risen for 12 out of the past 14 days can be determined by evaluating how parabolic the gold chart looks but must be weighed against the fact that central banks have been continuously purchasing gold for reserves, and Barrick CEO Aaron [...]
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