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On September 21, 2018, Eli Lilly set up its animal-health business as a separate company called Elanco Animal Health and sold 19.8% of its shares through an initial public offering at $24 each. The company disposed of its remaining 80.2% stake in Elanco in March 2019....
A: TransDigm Group Inc., $1,366.53, symbol TDG on New York (Shares outstanding: 56.0 million; Market cap: $77.0 billion; www.transdigm.com) designs, produces, and supplies engineered components for use in commercial and military aircraft....
TC ENERGY INC., $63.27, Toronto symbol TRP, is a buy.

TC generates steady cash flow for investors mainly through a 93,300-kilometre pipeline network that pumps natural gas from Alberta to eastern Canada and the U.S. Its other operations include 4,900 kilometres of crude oil pipelines and seven power plants.

On October 1, 2024, the company will complete the spinoff of its oil pipeline business as separate company South Bow Corp....

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Exchange-traded funds are set up to mirror the performance of a stock-market index or sub-index....

SUNCOR ENERGY INC. $49 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol SU; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 1.3 billion; Market cap: $63.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.2: Dividend yield: 4.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.suncor.com) is using self-driving trucks at its oil sands projects in Alberta to cut its production costs....
Worrying too much about the wrong things, like unpredictable stock market events, takes a toll on results and diminishes an investor’s intelligence
OMAI GOLD MINES CORP., $0.16, symbol OMG on TSX Venture, owns 100% of the past producing Omai gold mine in Guyana. The company currently does not generate revenue from the mine.

The history of the Omai gold mine dates back to March 1993. That’s when Cambior Inc....
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, $164.08, Toronto symbol RY, is a buy.

With the August 2024, payment, Royal raised your quarterly dividend by 2.9%. Investors now receive $1.42 a share instead of $1.38. The new annual rate of $5.68 yields 3.5%. The bank also announced a new plan to buy back about 2% of its outstanding common shares over the next year.

On March 28, 2024, Royal completed its purchase of the Canadian operations of U.K.-based HSBC Holdings plc (New York symbol HSBC) for $15.5 billion.

HSBC operates 130 branches that mainly cater to businesses in industries that trade and bank internationally....
iShares MSCI Canada Index Fund charges a high management fee you can avoid by choosing a similar, cheaper fund in its place.
Bank of Nova Scotia and insurer Great-West are leading competitors in their respective markets; look for that to cut your ongoing risk. Still, for now, we see Great-West as a hold, while Bank of Nova Scotia remains a buy.


BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA, $68.69, is a buy. The lender (Toronto symbol BNS; Shares o/s: 1.2 billion; Market cap: $84.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Yield: 6.2%; www.scotiabank.com) is Canada’s third-largest bank.


Due to the current economic uncertainty as a result of relatively high interest rates and inflation, particularly in Latin America, Scotiabank set aside $1.05 billion in its fiscal 2024 third quarter, ended July 31, 2024, to cover future loan losses....