gold prices

Gold prices are up about 5% since the start of 2022 due to rising inflation and uncertainty caused by the war in Ukraine. We feel the best way to profit from higher gold prices is to buy high-quality producers like Newmont. Most of its mines are in politically stable countries, and its dividend is linked to the price of gold.


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TWITTER INC., $45.08, symbol TWTR on New York, offers users a global platform to express themselves on the Internet in real time. Its website lets people create, distribute, and discover content. Platform partners include publishers, media outlets, and developers.

Advertisers use Twitter’s Promoted Products, the majority of which are pay-for-performance, to promote their brands, products, and services....

SHOPIFY INC., $731.93, is a buy. The company (symbol SHOP on Toronto) offers merchants of all sizes Internet-based software to design, set up and manage e-commerce stores across multiple sales channels. The company also handles digital payments and shipping.

This week, Shopify announced it will split its class A and class B shares on a 10-for-1 basis....

BIRCHCLIFF ENERGY LTD., $8.67, is a buy for aggressive investors. The company (symbol BIR on Toronto) develops and produces oil and gas, mainly in the Peace River Arch area of both Alberta and B.C. Its average output of 78,716 barrels of oil equivalent per day is 80% natural gas and 20% oil.

Cash flow in the quarter ended December 31, 2021, jumped sharply, to $0.73 a share from $0.25 a year earlier....

Barrick Gold offers you a great way to prosper from any rise in gold prices because of the war in Ukraine and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. If inflation keeps rising these next few years (a clear possibility), gold stocks will attract new interest to keep pushing up their prices....

MCDONALD’S CORP., $249.45, New York symbol MCD, is your #1 Conservative Buy for 2022.

The company is the world’s largest fast-food chain, with over 39,000 restaurants in 119 countries. It serves a wide variety of food but is best known for its hamburgers and french fries....

WALT DISNEY CO., $149.53, is still a buy. The entertainment and media conglomerate (symbol DIS on New York) is also the world’s largest theme-park operator.

Disney is now launching a new business that will let it enter the real estate market by developing residential communities for its most avid fans.

“Storyliving by Disney” will create master-planned neighbourhoods designed by members of the company’s research-and-development team; they’re known as “Imagineers.”

The first community will be built in Rancho Mirage, California, where Walt Disney himself once owned a home.

Some of the locations will be targeted toward older fans—focusing on residents age 55 and up—but not all....

Yamana Gold and IAMGold offer you ways to prosper from rising precious metal prices—amid ongoing coronavirus uncertainty but also well beyond it. Today’s economic volatility should significantly boost demand for gold as an investment, especially if huge government stimulus spending spurs inflation and sends investors into gold as a “store of value.” Both stocks are buys.


YAMANA GOLD, $5.55, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol YRI; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative) (www....

Gold prices drifted down in 2021 as the pandemic lessened and the direction of inflation remained uncertain. Still, for many investors, gold will continue to represent a safe harbour in turbulent times. What’s more, if inflation rises over the next few years—driven by the trillions of dollar that governments have spent to counter the impact of COVID-19— stocks like Lundin Gold and Alamos Gold will attract even more interest....

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