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Adding high-quality resource stocks to your portfolio can provide you with a valuable hedge against inflation and provide other hidden benefits

With eight operating gold mines and a potential spinoff, Yamana Gold continues to hold a place among our top Canadian mining stocks.

Investing in aggressive growth funds can be profitable for ETF investors who understand the risks

How to make big profits as an aggressive investor, but at the same time, cut way back on your risk

A basic guide to dividend dates explained to help new and veteran investors alike

Investors who use a dividend capture strategy hope to sell a stock for as much as they paid for it and “capture” the dividend at no cost.

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There are two fundamental things you should know about making growth stock picks.

One growth stock investing cliché says “don’t fall in love with your stocks,” but you shouldn’t fall out of love with a stock so soon that you miss a winner.

With rising revenues from its theme parks and hotels, high-yielding dividend stock Cedar Fair offers investors both income and growth.

To deal with a fragmented portfolio, you need to perform a stock portfolio review as if all your holdings were in one big account.

When you’re investing and planning for retirement, make sure you make realistic calculations rather than indulging in wishful thinking

Focused on the Bakken oil development, Crescent Point Energy is a stock we believe has strong growth potential when oil prices recover

Using a dollar cost averaging strategy is one of the best systematic ways to make money in the stock market.

Getting in on the ground floor with new fast growing stocks may seem enticing, but there are many reasons why most new stocks promoted as “can’t-miss” ideas do miss.

In the complex drug industry, Pfizer’s effective growth strategies—such as biosimilar drugs—make it one of our top U.S. dividend stocks.

Solar energy stocks may become a long-term renewable resource worth investing in.

Investing in solar power companies can be profitable for investors who know all the risks.

A history of thriving on acquisitions makes Alimentation Couche-Tard a top growth stock for us and one of the best investments in Canada

Over-the-counter trading is for investors who don’t mind risk and are willing to chance losing their money

Investors can use special ETFs called bear funds to hedge their positions in a market downturn.

EBAY INC. $28 (www.ebay.com) earned $529 million in the third quarter of 2015, down 8.6% from $579 million a year earlier. Per-share earnings fell at a slower pace of 6.5%, to $0.43 from $0.46, on fewer shares outstanding. Revenue declined 2.4%, to $2.10 billion from $2.15 billion. That’s partly because Google changed its search methods, which made it harder for potential buyers to find merchandise on eBay’s auction websites. Hold.

DIEBOLD INC. $37 (www.diebold.com) is selling its North American electronic-security business, which includes burglar and fire alarms and video systems for accessing and monitoring buildings. The company will receive $350 million for these operations....

PROCTER & GAMBLE CO. $77 (New York symbol PG; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 2.7 billion; Market cap: $207.9 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.8; Dividend yield: 3.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.pg.com) makes products in five main categories: fabric and home care items, such as Tide laundry detergent (29% of sales, 24% of earnings); baby goods, including Pampers diapers (27%, 26%); beauty products, like Olay cosmetics (24%, 23%); grooming items, including Gillette razors (10%, 16%); and health care products, such as Crest toothpaste (10%, 11%). Wal-Mart supplies 14% of the company’s sales.

Latest sale set to deliver big gains

In the past few years, Procter has sold many of its less profitable brands, including its recent deal to transfer 43 beauty product lines, including Wella, Clairol, Max Factor and CoverGirl, to Coty Inc. (New York symbol COTY).

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TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC. $59 (Nasdaq symbol TXN; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 1.0 billion; Market cap: $59.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.6; Dividend yield: 2.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.ti.comtarget=”_blank”) earned $798 million in the three months ended September 30, 2015, down 3.4% from $826 million a year earlier. The company spent $790 million on share buybacks during the quarter. As a result, earnings per share were unchanged at $0.76.

Revenue declined 2.1%, to $3.4 billion from $3.5 billion. Sales of analog chips (64% of the total) rose 1.5%. (Analog chips convert inputs like touch and sound into electronic signals computers can understand.) Revenue from embedded processor chips (21%), which perform mathematical calculations, gained 2.0%. But revenue from other chips and calculators (15%) declined by 18.6%.

However, free cash flow (cash flow less capital expenditures) rose 4.2% in the past 12 months, to $3.6 billion. That gives the company plenty of flexibility to keep buying back shares and raising its dividend.

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