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Bank of Canada

The dry spell in bank dividends in Canada is officially over.  Although Laurentian had raised its dividend shortly after the worst of the crisis was over, it’s not usually considered one of the Big 5 or even Big 6, the members of which are heavily owned by a majority of Canadians through pension plans, RRSPs [...]

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If you’re in the U.S., you may be justified in blaming your banking industry (you definitely are), but just make sure that you know you’re talking specifically about U.S. banks.  Not all banks around the world screwed everyone over.
Let me remind you that banking cultures are very different around the world.  They don’t all set [...]

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Predicting where the stock market will go in February might be a lesson in futility more than futurity, but that doesn’t mean we can’t pay close attention to what the analysts are looking out for – and other key pieces of market news such as earnings, announcements from the Fed, levels of consumer credit card [...]

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Highest ever one-month inflation rise in the UK for December, fiscal imbalances in Greece, weakened macro-economics in Germany, a Canadian housing market bubble, higher than 50% gains in the commodity currencies since last March (2009), and the return of hubris and risk-taking in the U.S. investment banks… what do these all have in common?
Is it [...]

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