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- End of the Year Bargain Hunting
- Larry MacDonald submits: This is the time of year when many investors sell lagging stocks to claim capital losses that can be applied to capital gains to reduce taxes. The prices of some securities may therefore come under abnormal selling pressure for a time and fall below what...
- External links 2009-12-03
- Risk Budgeting With VIX ETNs
- Larry MacDonald submits: Mark Yamada, President & CEO of P?R Investing Inc., designs portfolios of exchange-traded funds ETFs for investors. In my last post, I reviewed his use of “risk budgeting” to rebalance portfolios with regard to the volatility of stock markets (a technique employed by the...
- External links 2009-08-11
- Nortel and the Tax Implications of Bankruptcies
- Larry MacDonald submits: Mr. Roy, a former Nortel Networks senior manager, did not realize he was headed for disaster when he exercised options on 5,000 Nortel shares at $50. It was the glory days when the shares were trading at $100 in the stock market, so his immediate...
- External links 2009-07-26
- Proposed Changes to Canadian Pension Plan
- Larry MacDonald submits: The Department of Finance recently announced a set of proposals to change the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). So far there seems to have been little coverage in the media. Perhaps there should be more. One big change planned is a reduction in pension benefits for...
- External links 2009-07-12
- Is BCE's Dividend Safe?
- Larry MacDonald submits: A thread on the Financial Webring discussion forum asks “How safe is BCE’s Dividend?” One poster said the dividend on the common stock, now yielding 6.4%, was getting too “yummy” and possibly signaling trouble ahead. Another referenced a Globe and Mail article highlighting increased rivalry...
- External links 2009-06-28
- What You Should Know About Securities Lending
- Larry MacDonald submits: I have been thinking for a while about posting on “securities lending,” the practice where mutual funds and exchange-traded funds ETFs lend out securities in their portfolios to mainly hedge funds for short selling. But Jason Zweig’s May 30 column in the Wall Street Journal...
- External links 2009-06-02
- Don't Count the Greenback Out Yet
- Larry MacDonald submits: Many people think recent weakness in the U.S. dollar marks the beginning of a lengthy decline. With the global flight to safety waning, the natural tendency of a debased currency is coming to the fore. Indeed, net short selling of the U.S. dollar on the...
- External links 2009-05-31
- Bank ETF Investors: Regionals Are Not too Big to Fail
- Larry MacDonald submits: The 19 largest U.S. banks may now be off the critical list thanks to billions of dollars in government support, stage-managed “stress tests,” and a raft of equity issues floated into the rather suspicious-looking doubling in financial stocks over the past two months. But what...
- External links 2009-05-21
- Rosenberg Sees an L-Shaped Recovery
- Larry MacDonald submits: There are still some bearish commentators who have not changed their tune. David Rosenberg, Chief Economist & Strategist with Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc. is one. He is calling for an L-shaped recovery because he doesn’t think U.S. consumers will resume spending like they usually...
- External links 2009-08-20
- Canada's Transat: A Play on the Rising Loonie?
- Larry MacDonald submits: Transat A.T. (TRZAF.PK) is Canada’s largest travel tour operator. It stands to benefit from a higher Canadian dollar (which makes trips to foreign destinations cheaper, thereby increasing demand for travel/vacation packages outside of the country). by Larry MacDonald
- External links 2009-09-02
- Will Canada Be Next to Raise Interest Rates?
- Larry MacDonald submits: Rate hikes by the Reserve Bank of Australia have led some analysts to wonder if the Bank of Canada will be soon following suit. David A. Rosenberg, Chief Economist & Strategist at Gluskin Sheff, is not one of them. by Larry MacDonald
- External links 2009-11-03
- Will Canadian Housing Prices Continue on a Tear?
- Larry MacDonald submits: House prices in Canada enjoyed their third consecutive monthly rise in July, with all regions contributing to the national increase for the first time in 13 months (according to the latest Teranet-National Bank National Composite House Price Index). Ottawa led the month-to-month change with a...
- External links 2009-10-01
- A Wall St. Economist on the U.S. and China
- Larry MacDonald submits: How might markets and economies unfold from here? Probably one of the better persons to ask this question is Robert Barbera, a noted Wall Street economist who has been following economic trends for over 25 years. He is also a professor at Johns Hopkins University...
- External links 2009-05-16
- Inflation Fears Overdone?
- Larry MacDonald submits: The U.S. monetary base has doubled to $1.7 trillion US since September, a consequence of the Federal Reserve flooding financial markets with liquidity to head off a collapse of the financial system. This startling jump has many observers worried about inflation taking off. Some even...
- External links 2009-04-22
- On the Best Time to Invest
- Larry MacDonald submits: The best time to invest in stocks is from November to April, according to the Stock Trader’s Almanac for 2009. In fact, say authors Jeffrey and Yale Hirsch, most of the long-term gains in stocks occur in these six months. by Larry MacDonald
- External links 2008-11-30
- What's Behind Buffett's Call to Buy?
- Larry MacDonald submits: Buffett is 78. Why is he switching to 100% stocks from 100% government bonds in his personal account? As financial planners and advisers say repeatedly, stocks are for the long run. Only young people should have everything in stocks; someone close to 80 years old...
- External links 2008-11-22
- Was That the End of the Bear Market?
- Larry MacDonald submits: Markets rallied vigorously on Thursday, Nov. 13, for no other reason than they were testing their lows of Oct. 10. There is a belief among many traders and technical analysts that bear market bottoms retest their lows before beginning a sustained rally, and this belief was...
- External links 2008-11-13
- Claw Back Bonuses, But Change Incentive Structure Too
- Larry MacDonald submits: Finally, someone is going after bankers’ bonuses. Hurray, I say. I’ve been pontificating on getting those bonuses back, so it’s nice to see some confirmation we’re not tilting at windmills. by Larry MacDonald
- External links 2008-10-19
- The "DOPE-DUD" Phase For Canadian Banks?
- Larry MacDonald submits: Is it the Canadian banks’ turn to implode? It’s almost unimaginable to pose this question of the worlds’ soundest banking system, but could their stocks be on the verge of collapsing like the U.S. banks did? Up to now, shareholders have consoled themselves with...
- External links 2008-12-17
- More On Alternative Methods For Measuring Housing
- Larry MacDonald submits: When is the Canadian media going to stop headlining grossly misleading data published by the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA)? Case in point: on December 15, the Canadian Press cited CREA data that house prices had dived 10% during the year to November. by Larry...
- External links 2008-12-19
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