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Byline: JOHN HEINZL STAR ' Attention Walmart shoppers! You're ruining the narrative that the economy is on life support and people are going broke.' In a sign that consumers might [...]

Byline: IAN McGUGAN; Staff MARKET FORCES It's no great shock that hedgefund billionaire Steve Cohen is now the free-spending owner of the New York Mets, or that John Henry, the [...]

Byline: IAN McGUGAN; Staff MARKET FORCES This week, two of the biggest brains in the investing business published strikingly different outlooks for the stock market. If Aswath Damodaran's analysis is [...]

Byline: SCOTT BARLOW; Staff INSIDE THE MARKET Savita Subramanian, U.S. quantitative strategist at BofA Securities, has provided an in-depth look at which market sectors are attractively valued, a helpful guide [...]

Byline: DAVID PARKINSON VIRTUAL WATER COOLER / DECEMBER UPTURN Do you think conditions are in place for North American equities to stage a meaningful year-end rally? PAUL ATKINSON, head of [...]

Byline: DAVID ROSENBERG ECONOMY David Rosenberg is chief economist with Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc. and author of the daily economic newsletter Breakfast with Dave. The recent strength of the [...]

Byline: PREET BANERJEE DOUGH pbanerjee@globeandmail.com Every time stock markets tank, you can count on the same set of reactions. People question fees. If the investors had an adviser, they consider [...]

Byline: Fabrice Taylor INVESTING Flipping through reports from Bay Street investment analysts recently, I came across one that was sadly typical. Looking at a medium-sized company, the analyst raised his [...]

Byline: JOHN HEINZL NUMBER CRUNCHER jheinzl@globeandmail.com What are we looking for? Let's get an update of a U.S. portfolio we created in April, 2010, using the strategy of the late [...]

Byline: IAN McGUGAN NUMBER CRUNCHER imcgugan@globeandmail.com What are we looking for? South African stocks that would appeal to Benjamin Graham. More about today's screen Benjamin Graham, the famed father of [...]

Byline: DAVID MILSTEAD DOG Barnes & Noble Look! A book! Look! A Nook! Who will buy these books? Who will buy these Nooks? Won't they just buy a Kindle? Won't [...]

Byline: SCOTT ADAMS NUMBER CRUNCHER sadams@globeandmail.com What are we looking for? The best aggressive Canadian stocks. More about today's screen We're looking for stocks that might be volatile but have [...]

UP Energy shares advance on rising crude Energy companies rose on the TSX as crude prices gained for the first time in 10 days and natural gas reached its highest [...]

Byline: ANDREW WILLIS STREETWISE / INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS awillis@globeandmail.com Action film star Jet Li has found a new stage at the Toronto Stock Exchange. A Chinese sneaker company that features [...]

Byline: Staff, with a report from Bloomberg News DAYBOOK / NOVEMBER 19 Guessing when the U.S. central bank will raise interest rates has become a new sport for market players. [...]

(Up) Banks lift TSX on rate outlook Canadian stocks rose, extending a 13-month high, as banks gained on speculation that interest rates will remain low after Canada's consumer price index [...]

Byline: GORDON EDALL NUMBER CRUNCHER / EARNINGS THAT BEAT THE STREET gedall@globeandmail.com WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? After turning our eye to the earnings picture for the S&P 500 this [...]

UP Miners lift TSX as metals rally Canadian stocks rose after increases in China's industrial production and Japan's machinery orders ignited a rally in commodity prices. Kinross, Silvercorp and Consolidated [...]

Byline: Simon Avery The bulls have been smiling for months now, drawing satisfaction from a rally that won't succumb to the seemingly logical arguments of bearish economists. There are questions [...]

Byline: ALLAN ROBINSON CGI GROUP INC. (GIB.A-TSX) Yesterday's close $13.10, up 23 cents CGI Group Inc. is a consulting company that provides information technology services. It has a robust backlog [...]

Byline: ALLAN ROBINSON S&P 500 Integrated Telecom Services Yesterday's close 111.66, down 1.00 The telecom sector has been raised to 'neutral' from 'underweight' by Martin Roberge, a portfolio strategist and [...]

Byline: THERESA EBDEN; Special to the Globe and Mail Report on Online Investing / ONLINE TRADING PLATFORM When stock markets crashed during the 2008 credit crisis, causing panic across North [...]

UP S&P 500 climbs to one-year high U.S. stocks rose, sending the Standard & Poor's 500 index to a one-year high, on speculation improving corporate earnings will extend a seven-month [...]

Byline: THANE STENNER WEALTH MANAGEMENT Thane Stenner is managing director, private client, and founder of Stenner Investment Partners of GMP Private Client LP and author of True Wealth: An Expert [...]

Byline: DAVID PARKINSON MARKET LAB / MARKET RECOVERIES dparkinson@globeandmail.com If the stock market rally seems so wildly out of line with that of normal recoveries, maybe we should stop comparing [...]

Spot gold prices closed at $1,006.80 (U.S.) an ounce yesterday. The market is pricing it at $1,018.40 in one year. SOURCE: ESIGNAL Spot oil prices closed at $72.04 (U.S.) a [...]

Byline: BOYD ERMAN AND TARA PERKINS COVER STORY / A YEAR AFTER THE CRASH / DEAL MAKING Almost a year to the day since the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings [...]

UP Toronto rises as gold tops $1,000 The TSX added 0.9 per cent as gold futures climbed to close at $1,006.40 (U.S.), its first close above $1,000 since February. Goldcorp [...]

Byline: ALLAN ROBINSON MAINSTREET EQUITY CORP. (MEQ-TSX) Yesterday's close $7.93, up 11 cents Mainstreet Equity Corp. has shown an ability to buy and upgrade underperforming properties with the recent sale [...]

Byline: ALLAN ROBINSON COTT CORP. (COT-NYSE) Yesterday's close $7.52 U.S., up 61 cents Cott Corp. continues to show signs of improvement in its U.S. businesses, although its international operations remain [...]

Byline: ALLAN ROBINSON CHURCHILL CORP. (CUQ-TSX) Yesterday's close $15.55, up 43 cents Churchill Corp., a diversified construction company, has a strong backlog, about $8.50 a share in cash and continues [...]

Byline: DAVID BERMAN ECONOMY dberman@globeandmail.com If you've been wondering why the stock market has barely budged in recent trading sessions, despite the onslaught of good news suggesting that the U.S. [...]

DOWN U.S. banks retreat on credit concern Most stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 index fell after banks declined as SunTrust Banks predicted more credit losses for the industry. [...]

Byline: ALLAN ROBINSON WESTERN FINANCIAL GROUP INC. (WES-TSX) Yesterday's close $2.25, down 15cents Western Financial Group Inc. results are being held back by money-losing Bank West, but its insurance and [...]

Banks rally on rising economic indicators Royal Bank, TD and Bank of Nova Scotia each advanced after Statistics Canada said the index of leading indicators rose 0.4 per cent in [...]

Byline: ALLAN ROBINSON AURIZON MINES (ARZ-TSX) Yesterday's close $4.45, down 9 cents Aurizon Mines Ltd. operates the Casa Berardi gold mine in northwestern Quebec. Successful exploration efforts should extend higher-grade [...]

Byline: GEORGE ATHANASSAKOS STRATEGY For investors who are talking about the failure of the 'sell in May' axiom this year, I would caution that here are still two traditionally volatile [...]

Byline: STEVE LADURANTAYE MARKET LAB sladurantaye@globeandmail.com Standard & Poor's global stock market review for July tells a tale of pain and recovery in virtually every sector. On first blush, S&P [...]

Byline: GORDON EDALL NUMBER CRUNCHER DIVIDEND-PAYING STOCKS gedall@globeandmail.com WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? After the shock Manulife handed dividend investors on Thursday, Number Cruncher decided to take a look at [...]

Byline: SARAH HAMPSON CURRENCY/ CONSUMER SPENDING shampson@globeandmail.com I am sorry to report that not even falling in love will help most consumers start spending money in this recession. Neither will [...]

Byline: SHIRLEY WON MUTUAL FUNDS FUNDS REPORTER A global economic recovery appears to be inevitable given the government stimulus being pumped into the system, but the timing and breadth of [...]

Byline: ALLAN ROBINSON NUMBER CRUNCHER / PERFORMANCE WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? We end the series today that looks at stocks on the S&P 100 that Ron Meisels, the technical [...]

Byline: STEVE LADURANTAYE Suncor Energy Inc. is about to get a lot heavier. The company's deal for Petro-Canada is almost wrapped up, which means Petrocan will be delisted from the [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK EXCHANGE-TRADED FUNDS rcarrick@globeandmail.com Here's a mind-blowingly simple answer to the basic but crucial question of how many securities are required for a properly diversified portfolio. Three. You [...]

Byline: SCOTT ADAMS NUMBER CRUNCHER / EARNINGS Investment Editor sadams@globeandmail.com WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? Second-quarter earnings season is upon us. Let's look at what Canadian sectors have the best [...]

Byline: RICHARD BLACKWELL THE EXPLAINER / RICHARD BLACKWELL ANSWERS QUESTIONS ON THE FINANCIAL CRISIS Because of the recession I want to focus my investments on solid, dividend-paying stocks. Can you [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK PERSONAL FINANCE / PORTFOLIO STRATEGY rcarrick@globeandmail.com An investing strategy for summer 2009: Stock up. Use any weakness in the stock markets - something we have plenty of [...]

Byline: ALLAN ROBINSON AT THE BELL The second-quarter profit reporting season now under way is likely to be the key in determining direction of U.S. Treasuries during the next few [...]

UP Banks rally after optimistic Bank of Canada surveys Rallying financials helped lift the S&P/TSX composite index 1.5 per cent, after Bank of Canada surveys showed obtaining new loans is [...]

Byline: DAVID PARKINSON MARKET LAB dparkinson@globeandmail.com Attention, opportunistic investors: The economic cycle is calling you. Only problem is, the line isn't clear. Equity markets typically begin their recovery several months [...]