2019 will be remembered for trade wars, tariffs, tech and weed. By year’s end, the TSX will have risen an impressive 20% though will still lagged its American peers. There were a lot of prosperous stories, but instead of reviewing […]
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Will 2020 be the year for international stocks? Some believe so. Since markets began recovering from the Great Recession in March 2009, American equities have been the top performers worldwide. Meanwhile, European stocks, in particular, have struggled to gain momentum […]
We continue the Battle of the Stocks this week with a new round of American names. With the holiday shopping season, we focus on retail with a bit of tech, in other words… Amazon. It’s hard to ignore the gorilla […]
Markets were flat Thursday as geopolitics took a breather and the earnings parade continued. The TSX closed slightly in the green, lifted by bond proxies like utilities. Among the day’s winners was Walmart, which spiked to a record high at […]
Over the weekend, Trump said that trade negotiations with China would continue to move along, but ruled out any tariff relief. That announcement may well be strategic, but it pressured American markets Monday morning, though New York indices closed the […]
REITs as a good defensive option in 2019 You can’t escape hearing about interest rates, which are expected to remain low or decline in Canada and America. That means bond investors need to find yield in proxies like REITs, which […]
With any luck, Canadian voters will know who the federal government is by the time you read this newsletter. Like the World Series, this race is too close to call. The choice could have a major impact on depressed oil […]
Last week, we faced-off pairs of similar Canadian stocks to help investors choose the one for them. This week, we turn south to continue the Battle of the Stocks. Netflix vs. Disney It’s turning into the battle of the streamers […]
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