How to keep calm when others panic

Not everybody is happy with the agreement on Greece’s national debt that was reached after much hard bargaining. But it didn’t exactly bring world stock markets crashing into the abyss, either—although many predicted just such a disaster. That gives it a resemblance to the Y2K… Read More

GENNUM CORP. $13.50 – Toronto symbol GND

GENNUM CORP. $13.50 (Toronto symbol GND; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 35.5 million; Market cap: $477.8 million; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.5; Dividend yield: 1.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.gennum.com) soared 119% in one day after the company accepted a $13.55-a-share takeover offer from… Read More

Pat: I need to ask you a question regarding the sale of Gennum Corp. My concern is what can happen to this deal if Greece deteriorates. Would I be any safer by just selling at the present price and moving on? Also a general hint of what to do with this cash would be appreciated. Would I be just as well off to buy Bank of Nova Scotia or Bank of Montreal as dividend stocks?

Gennum Corp., $13.52, symbol GND on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 35.6 million; Market cap: $481.7 million; www.gennum.com), has accepted a takeover offer from U.S.-based Semtech Corp. (Nasdaq symbol SMTC).

Gennum designs electronic equipment and computer chips that let television broadcasters store, edit and transfer video signals without… Read More

Big gain for Gennum

GENNUM CORP. $13.50 (Toronto symbol GND; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 35.5 million; Market cap: $477.8 million; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.5; Dividend yield: 1.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.gennum.com) soared 119% in one day after the company accepted a $13.55-a-share takeover offer from… Read More