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Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) give you a low-cost, flexible alternative to mutual funds. Here are five ETFs we recommend and one to sell.

ETF investing is one of the best financial innovations of our time but themed ETF investing—including the Dogs of the Dow — is a poor investing strategy

The major Canadian and U.S. stock markets, while still subject to volatility, continue to offer attractive prospects for investors—especially if you buy the top stocks. All in all, we think that if you can afford to stay in the market for several years or longer, now is a good time for new buying....

Linde plc grew earnings while continuing a 32-year dividend-increase streak as the firm sells into resilient markets.

Shares of the new DuPont are up over 50% in the five years since the old DowDuPont conglomerate split into three separate companies (Dow, DuPont and Corteva).

Even so, DuPont feels it can generate even more value for investors with a plan to spin off its electronics product operations....

FASTENAL COMPANY, $78.60, symbol FAST on Nasdaq, is a leading wholesale distributor of industrial and construction supplies. It draws almost all its clients from the construction and manufacturing industries.

Those construction customers include general, electrical, plumbing, sheet-metal, and road contractors....

Corteva shares offer investors a number of pluses: Not only is the company at the forefront of key agricultural trends, the stock is a spinoff. Over the years, we’ve found that spinoffs are about as close as you can get to a sure thing in investing. It’s one key reason why we think there are significant gains ahead for existing Corteva investors and for new ones....

The major Canadian and U.S. stock markets, while still subject to volatility, continue to offer attractive prospects for investors—especially if you buy the top stocks. All in all, we think that if you can afford to stay in the market for several years or longer, now is a good time for new buying....

DOW INC., $38.58, symbol DOW on New York, is one of the world’s largest makers of plastics and specialty chemicals. It mainly sells to customers in the consumer goods, construction, energy, personal care, packaging, textiles, automotive and telecommunications industries.

The company manufactures its products at 98 factories in 31 countries.

On April 1, 2019, DuPont (symbol DD on New York) spun off Dow....

Here we highlight just two investment ideas for 2025. The Supplement on page 19 provides more details on both and other ETF strategies.


ISHARES S&P 500 3% CAPPED INDEX ETF $45.52 (Toronto symbol XUSC; TSINetwork ETF Rating: Conservative; Market cap: $72.8 million) invests in large and medium-sized U.S....