Archive for the 'Canadian Markets' Category
According to a recently released Global Competitiveness report from the World Economic Forum, Canada has the “soundest” banking system in the world.
With runners up being:
Sweden, Luxembourg, Australia, Denmark, Netherlands
And coming in third:
Belgium, New Zealand, Ireland, Malta
The United States? Ranked 40th. Zimbabwe? 122nd.
The methodology for the results isn’t all that clear but it was based on […]
Revisiting Call On Potash (POT) The Fertilizer Bubble
2 Comments Published October 10th, 2008 in Canadian Markets, Natural ResourcesWay back at the end of April 2008 I mentioned that I was skeptical about the ability of Canadian fertilizer giant, Potash (POT) to be able to continue the heady pace it had kept for the past few years. I compared the stock rise of Potash to Nortel during the tech bubble and said:
The problem […]
Hiding Out In Financial Safehavens
0 Comments Published September 23rd, 2008 in Canadian Markets, REITsThe markets are melting, banks are having epileptic seizures, the credit market is frozen solid… and short selling suddenly is illegal, so where are you supposed to hide out? Are there any safe harbors in which to weather the storm?
Something that has been working for me (so far) is Canadian REITs. In almost any crisis […]
Calling The Top In The Toronto Stock Exchange
2 Comments Published September 3rd, 2008 in Canadian MarketsAbout 4 months ago I wrote about the Canadian stock markets with a dual message: the Canadian retail investor was panicking and cashing in their mutual fund. According to contrarian analysis, this is a good thing because the less knowledgeable and weaker market participants are usually wrong - especially when they react like a herd.
But […]
Will Sprott IPO Mark Top Of Commodity Bull Market?
0 Comments Published May 12th, 2008 in Canadian Markets, Natural ResourcesSprott, a young Canadian asset management firm, is going public next week. This might be a market tell. Or it may be nothing.
The reason why I bring it up is not because of Sprott’s size or significance to the market. It is after all tiny, managing only $7 Billion - in the world of asset […]


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