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Pat McKeough responds to many personal questions on specific stocks and other investment topics from the members of his Inner Circle. 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. Last week, an Inner Circle member had a particularly intriguing question about commodity stocks. Specifically, he wanted Pat’s opinion on a company that is using a revolutionary technology in an area in which traditional methods don’t work....

This is the latest in a series of video interviews in which Pat McKeough will give his advice on a variety of topics. Some will deal with his overall investment philosophy, others on specific investment strategies and still others will be comments on events that are affecting the markets and the economy. Asked about when he would advise buying bonds again in light of interest rates, Pat replies with a piece of advice that applies to stocks and bonds. Don’t make your buy or sell decisions with just one statistic in mind. Consider all the circumstances. In other words, “If you’re going to play the game, look at all your cards.” Below is the transcription of Pat’s comments. ...

Every Wednesday, we publish our “Investor Toolkit” series on TSI Network. Whether you’re a new or experienced investor, these weekly updates are designed to give you specific investment advice, including how to use financial ratios and other information in your stock research. Each Investor Toolkit update gives you a fundamental piece of investing strategy, and shows you how you can put it into practice right away. Today’s tip: “Use the price-to-sales ratio correctly and you can uncover stocks with strong growth potential.”...

Peter Lynch, the world’s top mutual fund manager from the 1970s through the early 1990s, maintains that it’s a good idea to invest in companies you’re familiar with, companies you see in action regularly. That stock market advice could certainly be put to the test by the many Canadians who pour through the doors of the country’s best known coffee and fast food chain every day. TIM HORTONS INC. (Toronto symbol THI; www.timhortons.com) operates 3,295 coffee-and-donut stores in Canada and 714 in the U.S. It also has five recently-opened outlets in the Persian Gulf....

Pat McKeough responds to many personal questions on specific stocks and other investment topics from the members of his Inner Circle. Every week, his comments and recommendations on a selection of 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. Last week, one Inner Circle member asked for stock investing advice on one of the world’s largest chemical manufacturers. Pat notes that the company has made headway with new specialty chemicals, but that its future is closely tied to the economic recovery. ...

This is the latest in a series of video interviews in which Pat McKeough will give his advice on a variety of topics. Some will deal with his overall investment philosophy, others on specific investment strategies and still others will be comments on events that are affecting the markets and the economy. This time, Canadian real estate investing is the subject, as Pat replies to a question from a reader inspired by the increase in property values. Is buying a property and becoming a landlord a good investment? Look beyond today’s prices before you act, is Pat’s advice. Below is the transcription of Pat’s comments....

Yesterday, we discussed U.S. drug store chain Walgreen, a name familiar to many Canadian investors. Today we examine a U.S. drug distributor that has a strong and growing Canadian presence, but is not as well known. We first included this stock in the Aggressive Growth portfolio of Wall Street Stock Forecaster in June, 2002. McKesson Corp. (New York symbol MCK; www.mckesson.com) is the largest wholesale drug distributor in the U.S. and Canada. It also owns 49% of Mexico’s largest drug distributor....

Pat McKeough responds to many personal questions on specific stocks and other investment topics from the members of his Inner Circle. Every week, his comments and recommendations on a selection of 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. This week, we heard from an Inner Circle member asking for investment advice on America’s largest drug store chain. Pat discussed the company’s prospects following a big acquisition last year, and this year’s decision to put an end to a key commercial relationship....

This is another in a series of video interviews in which Pat McKeough will give his advice on a variety of topics. Some will deal with his overall investment philosophy, others on specific investment strategies and still others will be comments on events that are affecting the markets and the economy. In this post he has stock market investment advice on stocks that are taken over. It’s not a guessing game, he tells viewers—there are specific qualities to look for that can point to potential takeover candidates. And Pat has recommended more than his fair share in his newsletters. Below is the transcription of Pat’s comments. ...

Not everybody is happy with the agreement on Greece’s national debt that was reached after much hard bargaining. But it didn’t exactly bring world stock markets crashing into the abyss, either—although many predicted just such a disaster. That gives it a resemblance to the Y2K crisis of a dozen years ago. Y2K, in case you missed it, was media shorthand for the crisis that was supposed to hit at midnight on December 31, 1999. That’s when the world’s computers were supposed to freeze up; they were programmed to designate years by their last two digits, and they wouldn’t know how to handle the year “00”. Many investors thought this would usher in an immediate stock market plunge. Nothing of the kind happened. Before 1999 ended, owners of all of the world’s most important computers had found ways around the problem in time to avoid it....