“Every dog has it’s day dog, when the big dog throws him a bone / One moment in the sunshine when your ducks lined up in a row / Lucky   Read More

‘Where there’s smoke, there’s . . . opportunity’ concludes The MoneyLetter after surveying a number of security analysts’ reports on medical cannabis producers in Canada. Companies already established in the   Read More

Consumer retail stock Loblaw Companies is expected to earn more this year and next. That’s partly thanks to buying back its shares. The company is investing in electronic commerce. It   Read More

Noting that the price of gold to silver sits at a ten-year high of about 80-to-one, PI Financial’s precious metals and mining analyst Chris Thompson picks three established mining stocks   Read More

‘Buy high, sell low, repeat until broke’ is an emotional investment strategy best left to lemmings. The MoneyLetter’s behavioural finance columnist Ken Norquay says feeling emotions is okay: reacting to   Read More

Consumer retail stock Canadian Tire is earning more as its same-store sales rise and its gross profit margin expands. Its planned acquisition of Helly Hansen knocked down its shares. The   Read More

The US Federal Reserve continues to tighten its monetary policy which causes bond yields to move higher. You should maintain a short duration for your bond holdings by transitioning into   Read More

A global oil and gas stock that yields about six per cent and a financial services stock yielding about 10 per cent are Toronto-based portfolio manager Michael Sprung’s two favourite   Read More

The MoneyLetter recently surveyed analysts’ reports on Canadian consumer retail stocks and was intrigued by the juxtaposition of two that it found—a centuries old icon focused on high-end fashion apparel   Read More

The Canadian stock market has trailed other markets and is down so far in 2018. Growing company profits have done little to revive stock prices. We’re not comfortable sounding like   Read More

Algonquin Power’s increased ownership of of Atlantica Yield is part of its strategy to enter global clean energy and water infrastructure markets. Algonquin is a buy for growth and income.
Algonquin   Read More

As we celebrate Queen Victoria’s 199th birthday this week-end with fireworks, two-fours (Victoria herself preferred Vin Mariani), a public holiday (the only place other than parts of Scotland to do   Read More

“If we had a rating above ‘top pick’ we would be applying it to STEP.” Clearly CIBC Capital Markets is enthused about a recent acquisition by STEP Energy Services. The   Read More

In February, pipeline stock Enbridge Inc. became the poster company for what can happen when a stable, solid, dividend-producing blue chip stock takes a walk on the wild side, at   Read More

Retirees are often advised to avoid risk by buying government bonds and holding them to maturity. But this exposes retirees to the risk of losing purchasing power due to inflation.   Read More

Every month Investor’s Digest of Canada surveys security analysts for their buy, sell, hold recommendations on more than 1,000 Canadian companies. Most recently, Canadian Natural Resources topped the list with   Read More

Investor’s Digest of Canada columnist Mike Kachanovsky has uncovered a micro-cap stock that harbours the desire to become the dominant platform serving the Russian e-commerce and social media market. He   Read More

Here are six technology stock buys that offer capital gains potential over the next few years. Four others of the 10 tech stocks we follow regularly are holds—mostly because they’re   Read More

The MoneyLetter recently surveyed security analyst reports on the oil and gas industry and found some very mixed feelings about the prospects for the near-term future of the industry. A   Read More

Vancouver-based portfolio manager and chartered financial analyst Elvis Picardo takes a look at recent market volatility and finds two stocks, both already giants in their sectors, as the two best   Read More

Every month the Money Reporter, the newsletter for income-oriented investors, publishes its list of 25 recommended common stocks and 16 recommended mutual equity funds.
What to do about common stocks now
There’s   Read More

The Investor’s Digest of Canada, in its regular ‘Views of Leading Analysts’ feature, recently noted three Canadian junior gold stocks favored by Toronto-based PI Financial analysts, Brian Szeto and Philip   Read More

Scotia Canadian Dividend Fund has led its peer group this year, and it delivered excellent results last year. But it has also done well over longer time frames. It’s well   Read More

So many toys. So little time. So too with small cap stocks. And why not? There are lots to choose from. Small caps represent 60 per cent of the stocks   Read More

TransCanada has raised its dividend by more than 10 per cent. What’s more, the dividend may continue to grow at an average annual rate of eight to 10 per cent   Read More

Recent weakness in the Canadian market leads us to recommend Canadian equity funds for new purchases right now. Higher stock valuations in the US have made international equity funds the   Read More

Analysts follow as many as 20 stocks, most of which are rated “buys”. Of those buys, an analyst has one or two special favourites seen as most suitable for new   Read More

Our Investment Planning Committee has added growing agricultural products manufacturing stock Ag Growth International to our list of Key stocks. The stock is a buy for further long-term share price   Read More

Retail stocks have been struggling for some time now, but all is not lost. There are some bright spots in the consumer discretionary sector—those companies that are off-price retailers or   Read More

Here are two very conservative energy stocks with dividends that should satisfy income-oriented investors.
Canadian Utilities’ (TSX—CU) unregulated businesses weighed on its financial results in the fourth-quarter. But most of the   Read More

Here are seven conglomerate stocks that offer capital gains potential over the next few years. Three other conglomerates we follow remain on ‘hold’, including General Electric whose turnaround will likely   Read More

Recent federal tax reforms in the US will have a positive effect on restaurateurs’ tax bills, says Jason West, lead Credit Suisse analyst for the US restaurant sector. He predicts   Read More

A number of established medical marijuana producers are preparing themselves for expansion and entry into the soon-to-be-legal recreational marijuana market. The MoneyLetter recently surveyed a number of security analysts’ reports   Read More

Every month the Money Reporter, the newsletter for investors whose interest is more interest, publishes its list of recommended bonds and preferred shares. Maintain short durations for your bond holdings   Read More

SNC-Lavalin earned far more than expected in 2017. Its forecast 2018 profits greatly exceed the former consensus estimate. The company raised its dividend for the 17th year in a row.   Read More

The MoneyLetter recently surveyed equity analysts’ reports on technology stocks and found an interesting Canadian three-pack including a blue chip global information technology stock trading on both the Toronto and   Read More

PI Financial analysts Devin Schilling and Jason Zandberg are ‘fired up’ about a new supplier of medical cannabis, whose mission, in turn, is to ‘light up’ the cannabis sector.
BC-based   Read More

Here are two limited partnership income trusts that are ‘buys’ for both growth and income. They are both part of the Brookfield Asset Management corporation, a global asset manager with   Read More

Technical analyst Brian Hoffman gives his advice on eight precious metals mining stocks and an exchange traded fund that tracks the share price movements of the big precious metals miners.   Read More

Aggressive investing may pay off, or backfire horrendously. It all depends on the market environment, and on your willingness to give your aggressive investments the extra care they require.
If you   Read More

Every month the Money Reporter, the newsletter for income-oriented investors, publishes its list of 25 recommended common stocks and 16 recommended mutual equity funds.
What to do about common stocks now
After   Read More

Strong free cash flow growth at an attractive price has prompted CIBC Capital Markets analysts Robert Bek and Kulveer Grewal to initiate coverage of Canadian growth stock Stingray Digital, a   Read More

If we may be allowed to mix the musings of a former prime minister with a children’s pastime, The MoneyLetter recently spotted an American elephant and a Canadian mouse playing   Read More

Investors have greeted blue chip stock Thomson Reuters’ new strategic partnership with Blackstone with little enthusiasm. But the deal improves Thomson’s asset mix and growth prospects and we view the   Read More

Every month the Money Reporter, the newsletter for investors whose interest is more interest, publishes its list of recommended bonds and preferred shares.
What to do about bonds
Bonds have begun the   Read More

The Dow Jones Industrial Index has gone parabolic. (Prices are increasing and the rate of increase is increasing.) This pattern usually occurs in commodities or speculative individual stocks, rarely in   Read More

Investor’s Digest recently reported on Calgary-based Acumen Capital analysts Brian Pow, Nick Corcoran and Ted Bobier’s five favourite growth stock candidates for 2018.
Early trading in 2018 showed strong market   Read More

Canada’s two biggest banks keep duking it out for top spot among Canada’s big 5 banks. Both Royal Bank and Toronto-Dominion Bank are ‘buys’ for growth and income.
Unlike utility   Read More

The MoneyLetter recently reviewed two CIBC Capital Markets forest products stocks research reports. A reduction in Chinese demand for feedstock in containerboard production favours Cascades Inc. And increasingly shrinking newsprint   Read More

Portfolio manager John Stephenson says that while there is plenty to keep investors up at night these days, equity markets still remain the best relative alternative in a world of   Read More

Here are five broadcasting-related stocks that offer capital gains potential over the next few years. We rate these five stocks as ‘buys’ but we’ve downgraded a blue chip television broadcasting   Read More

In the debate over whether it’s best to invest actively or passively, it’s easy to lose track of the availability of a third option. Combining both investment approaches can be   Read More