Weekend Reading – New mortgage rules, Nortel saga, fat RRSPs, train your brain and #GoJays + MORE Oct 14th

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The stock market’s ‘fear index’ is half what it was in December. Here’s what that means Mar 3rd

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5 personal finance myths you probably still believe + MORE Jul 24th

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NEW YORK, N.Y. – Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Friday:
Advanced Micro Devices Inc., up 26 cents to $6.75
The chipmaker announced a partnership with the cloud computing business of Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba.
Intel Corp., up 48 cents to $37.45
Technology stocks made big gains as economic reports from the U.S. and China gave the industry a lift.
HP Inc., down 67 cents to $14.48
The company said it will cut as many as 4,000 jobs as printer and PC demand falls.
Infosys Ltd., down 99 cents to $15.66
The business consulting services company again cut its annual revenue projections after its second-quarter sales disappointed investors.
Hershey Co., up 78 cents to $96.43
The chocolate maker backed its annual guidance and said John Bilbrey will step down as president and CEO next year.
Citigroup Inc., up 14 cents to $48.61
The bank reported better results from its consumer banking unit but said its earnings fell.
Kohl’s Inc., down $1.44 to 43.68
The Commerce Department said spending at department stores slumped in September even though overall retail sales grew…

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French prosecutors allege RBC’s wealth-management subsidiary in the Bahamas helped Guy Wildenstein’s family stash thousands of valuable art works away in an offshore trust system

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Learn, save, invest and prosper with My Own Advisor.
Welcome to my latest Weekend Reading edition.  Earlier this week I interviewed the CEO of ModernAdvisor Navid Boostani, who provided some insight how Robo Advisors can help you train your investing brain.
I then went on to write about how you should learn to live with stocks, as much as you can.
Who’s watching the Blue Jays this weekend?  We all should!  #GoJays!
Enjoy these articles and see you here next week for a new dividend income update.
A reminder some new mortgage rules come into effect next week.  These changes are likely to affect every homeowner in a small way, especially if you sell your home.  From the article:  “The new rules will require you to report every sale of a principal residence on your tax return, whether you owe tax or not. And this starts with dispositions in 2016. So, if you sold a home earlier this year, you’ll have to provide basic information (date of purchase, proceeds of disposition and a description of the property) on Schedule 3 when you file your 2016 tax return…

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