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.
A: Shopify Inc., $63.34, symbol SHOP on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 88.9 million; Market cap: $5.5 billion; www.shopify.com), offers merchants of all sizes cloud-based software to design, set up and manage stores across multiple sales channels....
These six ETFs hold mostly blue-chip stocks that are widely traded on Canadian and U.S. exchanges. Each ETF mirrors, or tracks, the performance of a major stock market index. That’s different from narrower indexes that focus on resources or themes such as solar power or biotech.
Of course, you pay brokerage commissions to buy and sell these ETFs....
Of course, you pay brokerage commissions to buy and sell these ETFs....
TELUS $43.51 (Toronto symbol T; Shares outstanding: 591.4 million; Market cap: $25.7 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 4.4%; www.telus. com) provides a wide range of telecommunications services across Canada, including television, high-speed Internet, and wireless and landline telephone services.
The company recently agreed to repurchase up to 1.0 million of its shares from a private seller at a discount to the market price.
The move is part of Telus’s plan to buy back up to 8.0 million of its common shares, or roughly 1% of the total outstanding, by September 29, 2017....
The company recently agreed to repurchase up to 1.0 million of its shares from a private seller at a discount to the market price.
The move is part of Telus’s plan to buy back up to 8.0 million of its common shares, or roughly 1% of the total outstanding, by September 29, 2017....
A: No one can consistently predict currency movements, and we still feel that most Canadian investors should hold, say, up to 30% of their portfolio in U.S. stocks. Note that even if the U.S. dollar falls against the Canadian dollar, your U.S. stocks can appreciate even while the currency sags.
But looking at your question:
There is no easy way to hedge individual U.S....
But looking at your question:
There is no easy way to hedge individual U.S....
A: Liberty All-Star Equity Fund, $5.22, symbol USA on New York (Units outstanding: 186.8 million; Market cap: $975.1 million; www.all-starfunds.com), is a closed-end fund that aims to combine the stock recommendations of three value-style and two growth-style investment managers.
The fund started up on October 31, 1986, and its MER is 1.03%.
The fund’s top holdings are Alphabet, Inc., Mondelez International, Visa Inc., Salesforce.com, Facebook, Inc., The Priceline Group, Amazon.com, Halliburton Co., Adobe Systems and Bank of America Corp.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund takes on an above-average level of risk with its holdings: its highest industry group weighting is Information Technology at 21.4%.
The fund also has a high 9.2% yield....
The fund started up on October 31, 1986, and its MER is 1.03%.
The fund’s top holdings are Alphabet, Inc., Mondelez International, Visa Inc., Salesforce.com, Facebook, Inc., The Priceline Group, Amazon.com, Halliburton Co., Adobe Systems and Bank of America Corp.
Liberty All-Star Equity Fund takes on an above-average level of risk with its holdings: its highest industry group weighting is Information Technology at 21.4%.
The fund also has a high 9.2% yield....
CAMECO CORP. $13.39 (Toronto symbol CCO; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (306-956-6200; www.cameco. com; Shares outstanding: 395.8 million; Market cap: $5.4 billion; Dividend yield 3.0%) is the world’s biggest uranium producer. It has large, high-grade reserves spread across several mining sites; it also has low-cost operations and significant market share.
Uranium prices are at their lowest levels in over a decade....
Uranium prices are at their lowest levels in over a decade....
WAL-MART STORES INC. $71 (New York symbol WMT; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 3.1 billion; Market cap: $220.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.5; Dividend yield: 2.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.walmart.com) will begin offering special price discounts at its e-commerce operations on the day after U.S....
Pennsylvania-based Vanguard Group is one of the world’s largest investment management companies. In all, it administers almost $3 trillion U.S. across 175 mutual funds and ETFs.
Generally speaking, Canadians are unable to buy mutual funds that are registered in the U.S....
Generally speaking, Canadians are unable to buy mutual funds that are registered in the U.S....
AMAZON.COM $817.69 (Nasdaq symbol AMZN; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (206-266 -1000; www.amazon.com; Shares outstanding: 474.0 million; Market cap: $387.6 billion; No dividends paid) has launched its own music-streaming service. This puts it in direct competition with Spotify, Pandora, Google Play Music, Apple Music and others.
The new service, called Amazon Music Unlimited, is available for just $3.99 per month for those subscribers who own voicecontrolled Amazon Echo speakers....
The new service, called Amazon Music Unlimited, is available for just $3.99 per month for those subscribers who own voicecontrolled Amazon Echo speakers....
These six ETFs hold mostly blue chip, widely traded stocks on Canadian and U.S. exchanges. All of them mirror, or track, the performance of major stock market indexes. That’s opposed to narrower indexes focused on, say, resources or themes such as solar power or biotech....