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Despite pessimistic media forecasts, Canada’s banks remain strong and international exposure helps make Scotiabank a best buy.

Every Monday we feature “A Stock to Sell” as our daily post. With every stock or investment we recommend as a sell, we give you a full explanation of why we advise against investing in it at this time.

North American Palladium (symbol PDL on Toronto; www.napalladium.com) owns the Lac des Iles palladium mine near Thunder Bay. It also owns the Vezza gold project in Quebec’s Abitibi region.

Palladium is mainly used in catalytic converters for automobiles, as well as in jewellery.

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Pat McKeough responds to many requests from members of his Inner Circle for specific stock advice as well as questions on investment strategy and the economy. Every week, his comments and recommendations on the most intriguing questions of the past week go out to all Inner Circle members. And each week, we offer you one of the highlights from these Q&A sessions. We give you Pat’s buy-hold-sell recommendation as well as his analysis of the stock. This is part of the specific buy, hold and sell advice we offer you in our daily posts. Every week you get “A Stock to Sell” on Monday, “Best Canadian Stocks” on Tuesday, and “U.S. Stock Picks” on Thursday. Q: Hello, Pat. Can I get your thoughts on Under Armour? Thanks....

In the next few weeks, we will unveil a major upgrade to our website, TSI Network (www.tsinetwork.ca). We launched the current website in 2009 to host our four newsletters (Canadian Wealth Advisor, Stock Pickers Digest, The Successful Investor and Wall Street Stock Forecaster), our Inner Circle service and over 2,000 articles on individual investments. The current site served its purpose, but it’s time to move ahead with an advanced redesign....

Every Thursday we bring you one of our best U.S. stock picks. You get our specific recommendation on the stocks we profile, with a full explanation of how we arrived at our opinion. You will read about stocks making moves you should know about, most often from coverage in our newsletter on U.S. investing, Wall Street Stock Forecaster.

WAL-MART STORES INC. (New York symbol WMT; www.walmart.com) gets about 60% of its sales from its 4,516 stores in the U.S., including 3,407 supercentres, which sell both groceries and general merchandise. Groceries now supply 56% of Wal-Mart’s U.S. sales.

In 1991, the company opened its first store outside of the U.S. through a joint venture with a Mexican retailer. Its international division (29% of total sales) now operates 6,290 stores in 26 countries.

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Building on the strong performance of its shopping mall empire, RioCan REIT unlocks more property value in a deal with Hudson’s Bay.

Because its properties are concentrated smaller cities, Partners REIT faces limited growth prospects and a setback with its dividend.

DirectCash Payments Inc., a leading ATM operator in Canada, Australia and the U.K. this Canadian firm keeps on expanding through a series of small takeovers

Dun & Bradstreet’s has kept its credit report business thriving with its ability to harness new technologies like cloud computing.

Every Tuesday we bring you “Best Canadian Stocks.” You get our specific recommendations on the stocks we profile, with a full explanation of how we arrived at our opinion. You’ll read about stocks making moves you should know about, from coverage in one of our three newsletters featuring Canadian stocks—The Successful Investor, Stock Pickers Digest and Canadian Wealth Advisor.

We continue to recommend that investors aim to own two or more of Canada’s big five banks. But we also feel that conservative investors should further diversify their Finance-sector holdings with stocks like Great-West Lifeco.

GREAT-WEST LIFECO (Toronto symbol GWO; www.greatwestlifeco.com) has reported strong results in its latest quarter and raised its dividend.

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