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Wall St. hits 3rd straight record high, as TSX falls amid oil supply glut fears + MORE Oct 4th
TORONTO _ Wall Street nudged toward its third-straight record high Wednesday as Canada’s biggest stock index slipped into the red and oil prices fell amid concerns of a supply glut.
In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average advanced 19.97 points to 22,661.64. The S&P 500 index was up 3.... More »
Capital gains on subdivided land, and HST on vacant land Mar 10th
Our primary residence of three years is built on a double lot. We received a partial discharge of our double lot and built our house on it for cash. Do we have to pay any capital gains? We did not plan on doing this when we first purchased it.
–Devon
Is there GST on land sales?
First, when you sel.... More »
Tesla shares plunge 12% as investors wary of Elon Musk's Twitter plan - CBC News + MORE Apr 26th
Tesla shares plunge 12% as investors wary of Elon Musk's Twitter plan CBC NewsTesla Is on Pace to Lose $100 Billion in One Day BNNTesla loses $126 billion in one day Financial PostTesla Stock Drop Wipes Out $126 Billion in One Day Yahoo FinanceWhy Elon Mus.... More »
Making sense of the markets this week: July 10 Jul 8th
This week, Cut the Crap Investing founder Dale Roberts shares financial headlines and offers context for Canadian investors.
The first half of 2022 asset scorecard—not good
The S&P 500 entered a bear market last month and recorded its worst first half since 1962, down 20.6%. Th.... More »
A practical guide to Canadian REIT investing in 2025 + MORE Nov 11th
North American markets appear to have entered another “Roaring Twenties.” But unlike the last century’s version, the current “everything bubble” is driven by speculative valuations in anything related to artificial intelligence or quantum computing. Many of these companies trade at sky-hig.... More »
'Just quietly benefiting from it': Toronto real estate investors deny they're driving up the market
– cbc.ca
Some observers have suggested that domestic investors in Toronto are partially responsible for driving up prices in the hot housing market, making it difficult for prospective home buyers.
TSX soars, Dow Jones climbs 300 points as FBI clears Clinton of wrongdoing
– canadianbusiness.com
TORONTO – North American stock markets were soaring amid news the FBI found no evidence to warrant charges against Hillary Clinton after reviewing new emails linked to presidential candidate.
Markets seemed to reflect the increased likelihood of a Clinton victory over Republican nominee Donald Trump, as the FBI cleared her in relation to her use of a private email server. U.S. voters are set to head to the polls on Tuesday.
In Toronto, the S&P/TSX composite index rose 114.74 points at 14,623.99, nearly two hours after the opening bell.
The gains were even bigger south of the border with the Dow Jones industrial average ahead 304.79 points to 18,193.07 and the S&P 500 up 39.97 points to 2,125.15. The Nasdaq composite jumped 110.85 points at 5,157.22.
Oil markets were also up, with the December crude contract climbed 27 cents to US$44.34 per barrel. The boost helped lift the Canadian dollar up 0.03 a U.S. cent to 74.64 cents US.
In other commodities, December natural gas added three cents to US$2…
Markets seemed to reflect the increased likelihood of a Clinton victory over Republican nominee Donald Trump, as the FBI cleared her in relation to her use of a private email server. U.S. voters are set to head to the polls on Tuesday.
In Toronto, the S&P/TSX composite index rose 114.74 points at 14,623.99, nearly two hours after the opening bell.
The gains were even bigger south of the border with the Dow Jones industrial average ahead 304.79 points to 18,193.07 and the S&P 500 up 39.97 points to 2,125.15. The Nasdaq composite jumped 110.85 points at 5,157.22.
Oil markets were also up, with the December crude contract climbed 27 cents to US$44.34 per barrel. The boost helped lift the Canadian dollar up 0.03 a U.S. cent to 74.64 cents US.
In other commodities, December natural gas added three cents to US$2…
Time to invest in emerging markets?
– moneysense.ca
There may have been no worse place to invest over the last few years than in emerging markets. Between 2011 and 2015, the MSCI Emerging Market Index was down about 32%—our own troubled market only fell by about 3.2% over that same time period. But if there’s one thing to know about developing nations, it’s that things can go from bad to good seemingly overnight. Since Jan. 21, when global markets began to rise after their post New Years correction, the index is up 31%.
There are plenty of reasons why the region struggled, including slowing growth in China (the country saw its GDP fall from about 11% in 2010 to around 7.7% in 2015), falling commodity prices and political instability, which caused investors to buy more American stocks and less emerging market ones.
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Attitudes are shifting, says Gerardo Zamorano a director at Brandes Investment Partners, which specializes in emerging markets…
CIBC must pay back $73 million in fees it improperly charged customers for 14 years, while customers looking at their monthly statements all that time would never have noticed. Is it time for more transparency in the financial services industry?
World stock markets surge into the green after the FBI announces newly discovered emails related to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton didn’t warrant any additional investigation.
