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There are a lot of excellent Canadian dividend stocks, but I’m going to try to narrow it down to three that are particularly attractive at this point.
All three of these have good growth prospects going forward, and all of them have great management.  That said, the usual disclaimer applies – do your own research and [...]

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Aside from the relative success of BP finally (mostly) stopping the oil flow in the Gulf, there really hasn’t been a lot of game-changing news in the markets recently.  Sure, we have the announcement of the BlackBerry Torch, or the acquisition of Red Back Mining by Kinross, and the decision by the Bank of Australia [...]

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You may have heard of the term “seasonal investing.”  Myself, I was just introduced to this investment strategy over the past year through Brooke Thackray, MBA, CFP and president of alphaMountain Investments.  His firm publishes reports that “use seasonal analysis to give investors and money managers an edge in the markets.”
So what is seasonal investing?
The [...]

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With globalization 2.0, worldwide financial markets have become so much more intricately connected and symbiotic – literally thriving at the edge of chaos – that seemingly small things can now tip them into turmoil.  The events of late 2008 in particular attest to this.  For example:

an economics prof I talk to said “throw your textbooks [...]

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Headlines about job cuts, increased costs of energy and food, and failing financial institutions have become impossible to miss, but for many of us those headlines are not news as much as they are reminders of depressed economy. Despite an over-abundance of grim news, however, there are steps you can take to weather this economic [...]

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Well so far, I’m just about halfway through reading Schiff’s Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets.  I have to say (as I mentioned the other day to someone on Twitter) that I’m pleasantly surprised that not all of it is stuff that I’ve heard Schiff talk about before.  I was a bit concerned [...]

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Sending off some smallish-sized cheques for Emera (EMA), Bank of Montreal (BMO), Imperial Oil (IMO), CIBC (CM) and Bell Aliant (BA.UN).
My new DRIPPING goals:

make at least 10 optional cash investments before putting them back into my online broker, in order to maximize the leverage I can on no-fee investments.
make at least one investment per year [...]

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