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Canadians: How To Protect Yourself From Currency Risk When Buying US Stocks

March 17, 2010 · 0 comments

in Canadian, Canadian dollar, DJIA, S&P 500, currencies, diversification, dividends, financial planning, foreign investment, hedging, market timing, risk, stocks, wealth protection

Now that the loonie is flying high again, many Canadians are considering US expenditures, which become cheaper as the loonie moves higher.  Some of these purchases might be in the form of US stocks through your online brokerage.
But before you hit the trigger and jump on a position in Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) [...]

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The New Volatility, or Are Stock Markets Affected by Political Influences Reaching A Tipping Point?

January 26, 2010 · 4 comments

in 2010, DJIA, Federal Reserve, Obama Effect, S&P 500, VIX volatility, banks, central banks, earnings, economics, economy, market reports, market trends, news and updates, politics, recession, special dates, stocks

State of the (Economic) Union 2010: is political news now a leading indicator of stock markets?
I can’t remember where I read it recently, perhaps even in the End of Influence, but the consensus among some who know more about it than I do is that stock markets, and most notably the U.S. stock market in [...]

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Market Risks and Challenges That Lay Ahead in the Second Half of 2010

January 12, 2010 · 0 comments

in 2010, DJIA, Financial New Year, Q3, Q4, S&P 500, bull market, earnings, economy, indexes, market bottom, market crash, market timing, market trends, recession, risk, technical analysis, wealth protection

Increasingly, analysts seem to agree that the first half (and the first quarter, especially) of stock markets in 2010 will look robust and promising, but stock markets in the second half of the year leave much to be desired.
The possibility of a double-dip recession still remains for some, while others mitigate this prediction about the [...]

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Stock Market Investment Outlook November 2009

November 2, 2009 · 0 comments

in DJIA, November, Q4, VIX volatility, economy, interest rates, market reports, news and updates, recession, seasonal investing

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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Portfolio Update – DOW Crash Causes Firesale on Canadian Bank Stocks

February 21, 2009 · 1 comment

in DJIA, portfolio, purchases, stock picks

Well, in case you don’t know yet, late yesterday and then all day today the stock market crash fell quite a bit MORE below its November lows (we’re definitely in new territory now) to close at 7365.67.  We’re now back at 1997 levels.  I’m not sure that that means that 25 years or so of [...]

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Dow Jones Back At November Lows – 7552.60

February 18, 2009 · 0 comments

in Canadian, DJIA, banks

Today the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) closed at 7552.60.  The market low we had back in November 2008, that is, the lowest that the autumn crash gave us, was 7552.29.  So, the BNN commentators were right last month when they said those lows might still be retested.  I just wonder whether the Dow is [...]

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Back to the Bottom: Markets Retest November Lows

February 11, 2009 · 1 comment

in DJIA, market bottom, news and updates

This is what was feared would happen.  If the DOW managed to stay above 8000, we might be in for a recovery.  If it drops below 8000 again, all bets are off. Today, following Geithner’s speech, which provided little new information on the stimulus implementation, markets started dropping like it was another Lehman Brothers bankruptcy.
Overall, [...]

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