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BCE Inc., an abbreviation of its former name Bell Canada Enterprises Inc., is a publicly traded Canadian holding company for Bell Canada, which includes telecommunications providers and various mass media assets under its subsidiary Bell Media Inc. Founded through a corporate reorganization in 1983, when Bell Canada, Northern Telecom, and other related companies all became subsidiaries of Bell Canada Enterprises Inc., it is one of Canada’s largest corporations. The company is headquartered at 1 Carrefour Alexander-Graham-Bell in the Verdun borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
BCE Inc. is a component of the S&P/TSX 60 and is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the American-based New York Stock Exchange.
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Exchange traded funds (ETFs) are set up to mirror the performance of a stock-market index or subindex. They hold a more or less fixed selection of securities that represent the holdings that go into the calculation of the index or sub-index.
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ETFs trade on stock exchanges, just like stocks....
BCE INC. $46.67 (Toronto symbol BCE; Shares outstanding: 775.9 million; Market cap: $36.2 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 5.0%; www.bce.ca) is selling four of its specialty TV channels: Family Channel, Disney XD and the English and French Disney Junior stations....
ENBRIDGE INC., $43.71, Toronto symbol ENB, announced this week that U.S.-based Marathon Petroleum Corp. (New York symbol MPC) will invest in its proposed Sandpiper pipeline, which would pump oil from North Dakota’s Bakken shale formation to U.S. refineries. Under the deal, Marathon will cover $975 million (37.5%) of Sandpiper’s $2.6-billion cost. In exchange, Marathon will get a 27% stake in Enbridge’s North Dakota pipeline system. Enbridge’s share of Sandpiper’s cost is $1.625 billion. That’s equal to 1.5 times the $1.1 billion, or $1.33 a share, that it earned in the nine months ended September 30, 2013....
BELL ALIANT INC. $26.76 (Toronto symbol BA; Shares outstanding: 227.8 million; Market cap: $6.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 7.1%; www.aliant.ca) sells phone and Internet services to 2.5 million customers in Atlantic Canada and rural Ontario and Quebec. It also provides wireless services through an alliance with BCE, which owns 45% of Bell Aliant. The company continues to replace copper wires with fibre optic cable. That’s attracting more highspeed Internet and digital TV customers. Strong demand for these services is also helping offset lower revenue from traditional phone services, which still supply 52% of the company’s revenue. Bell Aliant’s high-speed fibre optic systems now reach 725,000 homes, up from 650,000 at the start of this year. By the end of 2013, it plans to expand its network to 800,000 homes....
BELL ALIANT INC. (Toronto symbol BA; www.aliant.ca) sells phone and Internet services to 2.5 million customers in Atlantic Canada and rural Ontario and Quebec. It also provides wireless services through an alliance with BCE, which owns 45% of Bell Aliant....
More and more, I find that I cringe a little every time an investor tells me that they recognize their current investment approach is not appropriate, but they are not yet ready to switch. With a little probing, these investors usually go on to explain that they have lost too much money with the current approach, and they “can’t afford” to sell out at current prices and convert that paper loss into a real one. Instead, they plan to stick with the current approach for an indefinite period. Sometimes they want to hold on to their current portfolio until they get back to break-even. Others say they’ll be satisfied if the current loss shrinks by, say, half. I recall one time in summer 2000. A friend asked me to have a short chat with a female relative who had just gone through a divorce and had received “a very generous settlement”. He said he didn’t know the details but the lady wanted an outside opinion on what to do with her money....
ENCANA CORP., $19.21, Toronto symbol ECA, rose 3% this week, even though it cut its dividend as part of a major new restructuring plan. Due to depressed natural gas prices, Encana plans to narrow its focus from around 30 properties to five: Montney (B.C.), Duvernay (Alberta), DJ Basin (Colorado), San Juan Basin (New Mexico) and Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (Louisiana). These fields also produce significant amounts of oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs), such as butane and propane, and should last decades. Encana expects oil and NGLs to supply 75% of its cash flow by 2017, up from about 35% today....
BELL ALIANT INC. $26.76 (Toronto symbol BA; Shares outstanding: 227.8 million; Market cap: $6.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 7.1%; www.aliant.ca) sells phone and Internet services to 2.5 million customers in Atlantic Canada and rural Ontario and Quebec....
BELL ALIANT INC. $26.76 (Toronto symbol BA; Shares outstanding: 227.8 million; Market cap: $6.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 7.1%; www.aliant.ca) sells telephone services and Internet access to 2.4 million customers in Atlantic Canada and rural parts of Ontario and Quebec. It also provides wireless services through an alliance with BCE.
The company continues to replace its copperwire cables with fibre optic lines. That’s letting it sell more high-speed Internet and digital TV services, which is offsetting falling demand for land lines. (Traditional phones still supply 52% of Bell Aliant’s overall revenue.)
In the three months ended June 30, 2013, revenue rose 0.6%, to $691.8 million from $687.7 million a year ago.
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The company continues to replace its copperwire cables with fibre optic lines. That’s letting it sell more high-speed Internet and digital TV services, which is offsetting falling demand for land lines. (Traditional phones still supply 52% of Bell Aliant’s overall revenue.)
In the three months ended June 30, 2013, revenue rose 0.6%, to $691.8 million from $687.7 million a year ago.
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