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MICROSOFT CORP., $435.16, Nasdaq symbol MSFT, remains a buy for aggressive investors.

The company is the world’s largest computer software firm. Its main product is the Windows operating system, which powers about 85% of the world’s personal computers....

OMAI GOLD MINES CORP., $0.16, symbol OMG on TSX Venture, owns 100% of the past producing Omai gold mine in Guyana. The company currently does not generate revenue from the mine.

The history of the Omai gold mine dates back to March 1993. That’s when Cambior Inc....

ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, $164.08, Toronto symbol RY, is a buy.

With the August 2024, payment, Royal raised your quarterly dividend by 2.9%. Investors now receive $1.42 a share instead of $1.38. The new annual rate of $5.68 yields 3.5%. The bank also announced a new plan to buy back about 2% of its outstanding common shares over the next year.

On March 28, 2024, Royal completed its purchase of the Canadian operations of U.K.-based HSBC Holdings plc (New York symbol HSBC) for $15.5 billion.

HSBC operates 130 branches that mainly cater to businesses in industries that trade and bank internationally....

EXTENDICARE INC., $8.66, is a buy. The company (symbol EXE on Toronto), owns and operates long-term care homes. Investors also tap the company’s ParaMed Home Health Care branches. ParaMed provides nursing care and other forms of assistance to clients who remain in their own homes.

The company’s revenue rose 13.3% in the quarter ended June 30, 2024, to $348.5 million from $307.5 million a year earlier....

TD U.S. Equity Index ETF $42.24 (Toronto symbol TPU; TSINetwork ETF Rating: Conservative; Market cap: $2.6 billion) invests in large U.S. publicly listed companies. It tracks the Solactive U.S. Large Cap Index. That index includes the top U.S....

C3.AI Inc., $27.73, symbol AI on New York, makes software for corporations to speed up their deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

The company was founded in 2009 by Thomas Siebel. Prior to founding C3.ai, he created Siebel Systems in 1993....

VANGUARD TOTAL WORLD STOCK ETF $115.87 (New York symbol VT; TSINetwork ETF Rating: Conservative; Market cap: $49.3 billion) tracks the FTSE Global All-Cap Index. U.S. companies make up the largest component of the portfolio (58.7%), then Japan (6.1%), the U.K....

The outcome of CNN’s June 27 debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden seems to have set off a political firestorm in the U.S., and not just between Republicans and Democrats. The debate also seems to have set off a secondary firestorm within the Democratic party, between members who claim the other side of the party should have known about or revealed Biden’s cognitive failings, and those who say his condition is not as bad as it looks.

My advice: don’t waste your time with the endless sniping now underway in the media....

Thanks to investor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence (AI) software, specifically its ability to process huge amounts of data and improve decisionmaking, the class A shares of Alphabet have jumped over 30% since the start of 2024, hitting a new all-time high of $185 in late June.


The technology should improve the quality of its Google search engine, as well as its other platforms such as Android and Chrome....

MERCK & CO. INC., $130.72, is a buy. The drugmaker (symbol MRK on New York) is a pharmaceutical leader in oncology, acute-care and animal health drugs as well as vaccines.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just approved Merck’s new pneumococcal vaccine.

Pfizer (symbol PFE on New York, and a recommendation of our Wall Street Stock Forecaster newsletter) currently dominates the market for pneumococcal vaccines, which protect against bacterial infections that can cause pneumonia and meningitis, among other conditions.

Pfizer’s two shots—Prevnar 20 and Prevnar 13—brought in a combined $6.4 billion in revenue in 2023....