amazon.com Inc.
NASDAQ symbol AMZN, is the leading bookseller on the Internet, as well as a leading video and music seller. It also has numerous other store categories, including electronics, computer games, toys and tools. Through Amazon Services, the company also offers programs that let sellers market on its web sites.
Here are two recent ETF launches that offer Canadian investors exposure to rapidly expanding niche markets. We also take a look at a well-established, broad-based fund. It offers the same kind of global reach as those new, more narrowly focused ETFs. However, its risk is lower....
eBay spun off its transaction-processing business in July 2015. The PayPal spinoff was partly due to pressure from prominent activist investor Carl Icahn, who saw it as a way to unlock value for shareholders.
Since the spinoff, eBay shares are up 30%....
Since the spinoff, eBay shares are up 30%....
Born between 1980 and 2000, about 90 million residents in the U.S. belong to Generation Y. The oldest of those “millennials"—a name coined for members of this large demographic group—will reach their prime earning years starting in 2020. Over the next two to three decades, millennials as a group will also inherit from their baby-boomer parents the single-largest transfer of wealth from one generation to the next....
These six ETFs mostly hold high-quality stocks that are widely traded on Canadian and U.S. exchanges. Each fund mirrors, or tracks, the performance of a major stock market index. That’s different from ETFs focused on narrower indexes or themes such as solar power and biotechnology....
LOBLAW COMPANIES $66.98 (Toronto symbol L; Shares outstanding: 395.3 million; Market cap: $26.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 1.6%; www.loblaw.ca) is cutting 500 executive and management jobs across the company.
The company plans to reinvest the savings in digital and e-commerce services....
The company plans to reinvest the savings in digital and e-commerce services....
Pennsylvania-based Vanguard Group is one of the world’s largest investment management companies. In all, it administers about $4 trillion U.S., spread across 370 mutual funds and ETFs.
Generally speaking, Canadians are blocked from buying mutual funds that are registered in the U.S....
Generally speaking, Canadians are blocked from buying mutual funds that are registered in the U.S....
A: Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF, $142.61, symbol VCR on New York, aims to track the MSCI US Investable Market Consumer Discretionary 25/50 Index. It’s an index that invests in U.S. consumer discretionary companies. These firms are in manufacturing and service industries that tend to be the most sensitive to economic cycles....
DOREL INDUSTRIES $29.81 (Toronto symbol DII.B; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (514-934-3034; www. dorel.com; Shares outstanding: 32.3 million; Market cap: $967.9 million; Dividend yield: 5.0%) makes a range of items: ready-to-assemble home and office furniture; juvenile products such as car seats, strollers, high chairs, toddler beds and cribs; and bicycles and other sporting goods.
In the quarter ended June 30, 2017, sales fell 4.1%, to $611.3 million from $637.3 million a year earlier (all figures except share price in U.S....
In the quarter ended June 30, 2017, sales fell 4.1%, to $611.3 million from $637.3 million a year earlier (all figures except share price in U.S....
AMAZON.COM $978.18 (Nasdaq symbol AMZN; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (206-266-1000; www.amazon. com; Shares outstanding: 480.4 million; Market cap: $469.9 billion; No dividends paid) has reached a deal with the troubled Sears Holdings Corp. (symbol SHLD on Nasdaq) to allow the department store chain to sell its Kenmore- branded appliances on Amazon’s websites....
RESTAURANT BRANDS INTERNATIONAL INC. $77 (Toronto symbol QSR; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 463.1 million; Market cap: $35.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 8.3; Dividend yield: 1.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.rbi.com) is the world’s third-largest fast-food operator, after McDonald’s (No....