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Molson Coors Canada now yields 3.1% while earnings rise on cost-cutting, but its growth prospects are challenging.
CENOVUS ENERGY INC., $21.89, Toronto symbol CVE, remains a buy for the Resources section of your portfolio.

The company is now Canada’s third-largest producer of oil and natural gas after Canadian Natural Resources and Suncor (see next Hotline item)....
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Atlas Engineered Products continues to report higher revenue and earnings as it makes an acquisition and seeks to improve its operations with robotic manufacturing.
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA $173 is a buy. The bank (Toronto symbol RY; Income-Growth Payer Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 1.4 billion; Market cap: $242.2 billion; Dividend yield: 3.3%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Highest; www.rbc.com) is Canada’s largest chartered bank by market cap....
ISHARES CORE MSCI CANADIAN QUALITY DIVIDEND INDEX ETF $30.08 (Toronto symbol XDIV; Units o/s: 57.8 million; Market cap: $1.7 billion; Dividend yield: 4.5%; www.blackrock.com/ca) aims to invest in Canadian stocks with above-average dividend yields and steady or increasing dividends....
Shares of property insurer Intact have more than doubled in the past five years and recently hit a new all-time high. That’s mainly due to savvy acquisitions that expanded Intact’s geographic reach.


The company now expects to pay out higher claims in 2024 as a result of severe weather events in Canada....
A: Empire Company Ltd., $40.37, symbol EMP.A on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 238.5 million; Market cap: $9.7 billion; www.empireco.ca), is primarily a food retailer and also invests in real estate.

The company operates through two segments: Food retailing, and Investments and other operations.

Empire’s Food retailing segment does business through its wholly owned Sobeys business....
A: The Global X Seasonal Rotation ETF, $31.08, symbol HAC on Toronto (Units outstanding: 7.0 million; Market cap: $217.6 million; www.globalx.ca), aims to tactically spread and move around its holdings between stocks, fixed-income investments, commodities and currencies based on historical seasonal trends.

The managers believe that investment markets follow these seasonal trends and so have seasonal rhythms....