Companies that raise their dividends each year enable you to beat inflation and maintain or improve your lifestyle over the long haul. The 16 dividend stocks below remain buys.
Stocks that   Read More

The Investment Reporter regularly monitors 10 top industrial stocks on “The Back Page”, a weekly feature that examines the market outlook with a focus on a particular industry. Here are   Read More

It’s late to sell cheaper Canadian stocks, convert to pricey U.S. dollars and buy costlier U.S. stocks. This strategy is apt to backfire. Many of The Investment Reporter’s Key Canadian   Read More

Many retailers have closed all, or trimmed the number of, their Canadian stores. This gives the successful survivors room to expand. Continue to invest in consumer goods stocks such as   Read More

PPG Industries (NYSE─PPG), one of our U.S. Key stocks, earned record profits in 2014. It’s expected to earn more this year and next. The world’s leading coatings and specialty-materials company   Read More

Oil prices have plummeted since June, 2014. Other commodity prices have declined. This has hurt the share prices of the producers. Oil companies are a lot cheaper than they were. The same is true of many mining companies that we review   Read More

TransCanada Corp. (TSX—TRP), one of our Key stocks, is pleased with the outcome of the U.S. mid-term elections. That’s because the pro-business Republican party now controls both the Senate and   Read More

When Scotiabank unveiled plans to sell some of its shares of CI Financial, the latter’s share price fell. This gives you the opportunity to buy CI as a bargain stock,   Read More