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Best Canadian DRIPs For Your First Share

January 23, 2010 · 10 comments

in Canadian, Computershare, DRIPs, S&P/TSX, dividends, financial planning, money decisions, passive income, stock picks, wealthbuilding

Ready to buy your first share in a Canadian DRIP plan?  Deciding which Canadian DRIP stock to invest in first?
These are my top picks for Canadian DRIPs today, in early 2010.  The DRIP landscape is always changing so it pays to keep one eye open and monitor your investments.  That said, DRIPs in general are [...]

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Canadian Silver Mining Stocks on the TSX

November 25, 2009 · 0 comments

in Canadian, TSX, commodities, metals, mining, precious metals, silver, stocks

There are not many large-cap or mid-cap mining companies that expressly focus on silver production alone.  Much silver production comes about as a byproduct of gold mining.  Thus it is likely that even strictly pure-gold producers will come up with some trace amounts of silver, too.
This post lists the large-cap Canadian companies that either declare [...]

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Large-Cap Canadian Energy and Materials Stocks

November 19, 2009 · 2 comments

in Canadian, Canadian economy, S&P/TSX, TSX, commodities, energy, indexes, investing, metals, mining, resources, stock exchanges

If you’d like to make your own Canadian commodities ETF, or be more selective than iShares ETFs like XMA (Materials), then choose your stocks from this list of all the energy and materials stocks currently composing just over one third of the S&P/TSX 60, Canada’s large-cap index.
If you’re looking for Canada’s largest gold companies, Canada’s [...]

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Commodities Currencies Trade With Oil Prices

September 14, 2009 · 4 comments

in Canadian dollar, Canadian economy, US dollar, commodities, forex, oil

The Canadian dollar (CAD) is a commodity currency, for better or for worse.  This means that global traders view its worth in terms of the commodities produced within the Canadian economy: gold, timber, silver, nickel, potash, wheat, natural gas and, of course, oil.
By far the most strong correlation with the value of the Canadian [...]

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The Four Pillars of Wealth – A Great Job, Family and Two Successful Blogs: A Conversation with Four Pillars

May 8, 2009 · 3 comments

in interviews

Last week I talked with Brandon from The Almost Millionaire; this week I’m posing some of the same questions to Four Pillars, author of the great (Canadian) personal finance blog, Four Pillars.  Four Pillars is coming up to his second anniversary blogging this May.  Congrats!  You can subscribe to his free feed here to get [...]

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Canadian Equivalent of the Roth IRA – The Tax-Free Savings Account, or TFSA

April 24, 2009 · 0 comments

in Canadian, TFSAs, savings, taxes

Lately I’ve been reading more about the Roth IRA on good posts like the ones over at Financial Nut or NoDebtPlan.  It has struck me — and I could be wrong, I’ll have to gather more details, maybe from you, dear readers, below — that Canada’s TFSA (tax-free savings account) is a rough equivalent to [...]

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Royal Bank Falls on New Exposure Fears

January 23, 2009 · 1 comment

in Canadian, banks

Yep – time to worry about the Canadian banks, and they all dropped today at the end of the week.  Royal Bank got hit particularly hard and it is actually trading for as low as $28.00 Canadian, if you can believe it.  Even TD is still down to fresh lows, closing at $39.00.
If I had [...]

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