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Do you need market-neutral ETFs in your portfolio? Apr 23rd
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Jean Coutu sales rise on store additions
– theglobeandmail.com
Profit dropped after a boost from its Rite Aid investment
US stocks move between gains and losses in early trading; Fed minutes coming up
– canadianbusiness.com
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Stocks are moving between gains and losses in early trading as traders digest the latest corporate earnings news.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 20 points, or 0.1 per cent, to 16,738 as of 9:36 a.m. Eastern time Wednesday. The Dow plunged 272 points the day before.
The Standard and Poor’s 500 rose three points, or 0.2 per cent, to 1,938. The Nasdaq composite was flat at 4,394.
Yum Brands rose 2 per cent in early trading after the owner of KFC and Pizza Hut earned slightly more in the latest quarter than analysts expected.
Monsanto fell half a per cent after reporting results that missed analysts’ estimates.
Later Wednesday the Federal Reserve releases minutes from its latest policy meeting last month.
The post US stocks move between gains and losses in early trading; Fed minutes coming up appeared first on Canadian Business.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 20 points, or 0.1 per cent, to 16,738 as of 9:36 a.m. Eastern time Wednesday. The Dow plunged 272 points the day before.
The Standard and Poor’s 500 rose three points, or 0.2 per cent, to 1,938. The Nasdaq composite was flat at 4,394.
Yum Brands rose 2 per cent in early trading after the owner of KFC and Pizza Hut earned slightly more in the latest quarter than analysts expected.
Monsanto fell half a per cent after reporting results that missed analysts’ estimates.
Later Wednesday the Federal Reserve releases minutes from its latest policy meeting last month.
The post US stocks move between gains and losses in early trading; Fed minutes coming up appeared first on Canadian Business.
At the open: Stocks fluctuate, oil pressures TSX
– theglobeandmail.com
Weak economic signals continues to keep buyers away
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The Financial Times’ Martin Wolf shares his gloomy view of what’s been driving global economic progress for the past 25 years:
Without an unsustainable credit boom somewhere, the world economy seems incapable of generating growth in demand sufficient to absorb potential supply. It looks like a law of the conservation of credit booms. Consider the past quarter century: a credit boom in Japan that collapsed after 1990; a credit boom in Asian emerging economies that collapsed in 1997; a credit boom in the north Atlantic economies that collapsed after 2007; and finally in China. Each is greeted as a new era of prosperity, to collapse into crisis and post-crisis malaise…
These credit booms did not come out of nowhere. They are the outcome of the policies adopted to sustain demand as previous bubbles collapsed, usually elsewhere in the world economy. That is what has happened to China. We need to escape from this grim and apparently relentless cycle. But for now, we have made a Faustian bargain with private sector-driven credit booms…
Top 100 Dividend Stocks – October 2014 Edition – A New Leader Takes Charge
– IntelligentSpeculator.net
A few days late, but it’s that time of the month again. We’re starting to see a bit more volatility which always provides a few more investing and trading options. There are still some great opportunities out there and I’m always on the lookout for ways to improve my Ultimate Sustainable Dividend portfolio. Why? Because it’s a key part of increasing my monthly passive income (see last update here). There is no “perfect” stock of course. The market is fairly efficient so it’s all about finding high quality stocks that are a good match for my portfolio and provide a good potential/downside risk ratio. Obviously, yield is just one criteria but it’s an important one and for that reason, looking at the top large cap stocks in terms of dividend payout is a great way for me to get started.Here is the list!
TickerNamePriceDividend YieldPayout RatioEx-Dvd
DODiamond Offshore Drilling Inc3310.6288.6910/30/2014
RIGTransocean Ltd30.159…
