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How Foreigners Became America's Financial Regulators + MORE Mar 19th
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Some of my favourite Canadian dividend paying stocks + MORE Mar 6th
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Manulife’s new CEO Roy Gori sets sights on shaking up insurance industry Sep 30th
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TransUnion: US homeowners increasingly prioritizing mortgage payments as home values rise + MORE Sep 19th
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4.5 year – 2.45%
– ratesupermarket.ca
This GIC rate is offered by Outlook Financial and was updated on 2013-03-14. Click on the link above to get more details or apply online.
Passive Income Update – August 2013
– IntelligentSpeculator.net
August… not much exciting is going on right? Actually, I’ve been working on a couple of important posts to be posted in the next few weeks, I continue to make progress. I’m still working on improving the USDP which might require dumping off Intel Corp (INTC)…time will tell.The reason I post this monthly update is both to keep myself accountable but also have a more public discussion about my plans and how I can become financially independent as quickly as possible.
As time goes by, my objective is to be able to live entirely off of these new income streams but also be able be diversified enough to be ok no matter what happens. In many ways, that is what’s behind my interest in dividend income. For now, I prefer to avoid using actual numbers (might change later on) so what I will do is express all of this data in %. The objective of course is for all of these flows to end up generating 100% of my current income. I also want to gradually make sure that my income producing assets are not all locked away in accounts that will only be available upon retirement…
Bitcoin gets real as regulator subpoenas top players
– theglobeandmail.com
New York State Department of Financial Services seeks to police top 22 digital-currency companies and investors
5.5 year – 2.70%
– ratesupermarket.ca
This GIC rate is offered by Outlook Financial and was updated on 2013-03-14. Click on the link above to get more details or apply online.
Canada Stocks To Watch: BlackBerry, BlackBerry, BlackBerry
– blogs.wsj.com
There’s really only one stock we’re watching early this a.m. BlackBerry Ltd. debuts a new BlackBerry 7 phone–one of its older lines–a day after saying it would entertain buyout offers and other strategic alternatives. Investors have had a day to digest what that might mean for the stock price.
