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These two global leaders continue to shrink their operations. That’s good news for investors, as markets tend to prefer—and reward—companies with easy-to-understand businesses rather than those with complex conglomerate structures (see box below for more info).


UNILEVER PLC (ADR) $60 is a buy for aggressive investors. The company (New York symbol UL; Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 2.6 billion; Market cap: $156.0 billion; Dividend yield: 3.1%; Takeover Target Rating: Lowest; www.unilever.com) is one of the world’s largest makers of branded and packaged consumer goods.


Unilever is now conducting a strategic review of its tea business to add investor value....

We continue to assess the merits of ETFs that have underperformed for investors over the past 3 years: Below we give you a snapshot of funds focused on global energy stocks, copper miners and U.S. telecoms. Each faces industry pressures that impact your returns....

The six ETFs we update for you below mainly hold high-quality stocks that are widely traded on Canadian and U.S. exchanges. Each fund tracks the performance of a major stock market index for its investors. Note that this is different from riskier ETFs focused on narrower indexes or trends such as cryptocurrencies or cannabis.


Of course, you pay brokerage commissions to buy and sell these ETFs....

Early in my investment career, before I had much money of my own to invest, I took a strong interest in market indicators (also known as investor rules of thumb, investor guidelines, market lore and so on). Who could resist? Market indicators seemed to provide a short cut to making money in the stock market....

Understand the history of gold as an investment and as a currency to build the best gold investment plan for portfolio gains

Great changes may soon come to the market in cannabis stocks.

We first mentioned the cannabis stock boom in the June 12, 2018, Inner Circle, in a p.s. to a frontpage report on Artificial Intelligence (AI) stocks. In it we said,

“AI investments are more common in the U.S....

In October 2018, Honeywell International Inc. spun off two of its smaller operations—Garrett Motion and Resideo Technologies.

Honeywell is up about 20% since the spinoffs. However, the two new firms have moved lower, which is not unusual for new spinoffs with little earnings history or broker attention....

Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives finally voted to formalize an impeachment process for President Trump … and the market went up, which seems to have surprised a lot of people.

Generally, it’s a good sign when a long-feared threat like the Trump impeachment vote occurs, and stock prices rise in response....

Here’s a special report from our research team on the October 21, 2019, Canadian Federal election. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals lost their majority but held on to a minority government with 157 seats (170 are needed for a majority). The Liberals failed to win any seats in Alberta or Saskatchewan.

The Conservatives won a total of 121 seats and the NDP, 24....

You can count on your favourite Canadian newspapers to do a great job of reporting the results of yesterday’s Canadian federal election. However, it will take a little longer to figure out how the new minority Canadian government will hurt or help your investments....