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The United Kingdom has one of the largest economies in Europe and is among the world’s top 10. However, over the near term, it faces challenges. This includes high inflation, which has forced interest rate hikes, and an overall slower global economy, which has hurt exports....
BCE INC., $56.28, Toronto symbol BCE, is a buy.

The company is Canada’s largest traditional telephone service provider. It has 2.10 million residential customers in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and the Atlantic provinces. It also has 4.34 million high-speed Internet users and 2.72 million TV subscribers (satellite and fibre-optic)....
When brokerages offer practice accounts that encourage investors to buy stocks online without real money, it leads to bad investment habits
A: Veeva Systems Inc., $202.85, symbol VEEV on New York (Shares outstanding: 145.7 million; Market cap: $32.3 billion; www.veeva.com), is a provider of cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) software for the life sciences, cosmetics and consumer-products industries.

The San Francisco-based company has more than 1,350 customers, ranging from large pharmaceutical firms to biotech startups.

Veeva’s products include its Veeva Vault Clinical Data Management System (CDMS)—a cloud application to help life sciences companies better manage their clinical data....
We’re sending out our latest quarterly letter to our portfolio management clients this week; as always, we’ll send it out to Inner Circle members who are not portfolio management clients further along in the quarter.

In each new quarterly client letter, we mostly focus on subjects that are not likely to change too much from one week to the next, but may have a big impact on investor sentiment and the long-term market outlook.

This time around, I started out writing about five major issues that seem to be affecting the market outlook in the minds of many investors....
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP., $449.00, symbol LMT on New York, is the world’s largest defence contractor.

The company operates 375 facilities, employs 116,000 people, and has over 16,000 active suppliers, in every U.S. state and more than 50 countries. It’s headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.

The company has four operating segments: Aeronautics (41% of revenue), Missile and Fire Control (17%), Rotary and Mission Systems (23%), and Space (19%).

In the three months ended June 25, 2023, Lockheed Martin’s revenue rose 8.4%, to $16.7 billion from $15.4 billion a year earlier....
CHOICE PROPERTIES REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST, $13.81, is a top pick for 2023.

Choice is Canada’s biggest REIT, with 702 retail, industrial and residential properties totalling 63.8 million square feet of gross leasable area. Its occupancy rate is a high 97.4%....

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BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS INC. $172 is a buy. The company (New York symbol BR; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Finance sector; Shares outstanding: 118.0 million; Market cap: $20.3 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.4; Dividend yield: 1.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.broadridge.com) serves the investment industry in three main areas: investor communications, securities processing, and transaction clearing.


Broadridge has won a U.S....

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You can’t fake a record of dividends....