oil and gas

CRESCENT POINT ENERGY $10.42 (Toronto symbol CPG; Shares outstanding: 545.8 million; Market cap: $5.7 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 3.5%; www.crescentpointenergy.com) shareholders rejected in early May a list of alternative directors proposed by Cation Capital Inc.


The Alberta-based activist investor owns just 0.3% of the energy producer....

ENBRIDGE INC. $40.12 (Toronto symbol ENB; Shares outstanding: 1.6 billion; Market cap: $68.4 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 6.7%; www.enbridge.com) operates pipelines in Canada and the U.S. In addition, it owns oil and gas storage facilities.


The company also controls four affiliates that operate pipelines and related operations: Enbridge Energy Partners, LP (New York symbol EEP), Enbridge Energy Management, LLC (New York symbol EEQ), Enbridge Income Fund Holdings Inc....

YUM! BRANDS INC. $83 (New York symbol YUM; Aggressive Growth Portfolio; Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 323.2 million; Market cap: $26.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.6; Dividend yield: 1.4%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.yum.com) operates 43,500 restaurants in over 135 countries....

PASON SYSTEMS $20.19 (Toronto symbol PSI; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative) (403-301-3400; www.pason.com; Shares outstanding: 85.1 million; Market cap: $1.7 billion; Dividend yield: 3.4%) serves drilling contractors for oil and gas firms in Canada, the U.S., Mexico and Argentina....

ECLIPSE RESOURCES CORP. $1.68 (New York symbol ECR; Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 302.1 million; Market cap: $507.5 million; No dividend paid; Takeover Target Rating: Medium; www.eclipseresources.com) produces oil and gas in the Utica and Marcellus Shale basins in southeast Ohio.


Eclipse recently hired legal and financial advisors to help it undertake a thorough review of the company’s operations....

Mining stocks are investments in companies that produce or explore for minerals. Some of these minerals include uranium, coal, molybdenum (which is used in steelmaking), copper, silver and gold. They are affected by fluctuating commodity prices in addition to their own business and operating risks.

Mining stocks can be strong performers when commodity prices move up....

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Poland has a troubled history of foreign occupation and communist government....

PRECISION DRILLING CORP. $4.65 (Toronto symbol PD; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Resource sector; Shares outstanding: 293.2 million; Market cap: $1.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.0; Dividend suspended in March 2016; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; www.precisiondrilling.com) provides contract drilling services to land-based oil and gas producers, mainly in North America.


Revenue in the quarter ended March 31, 2018, rose 8.8%, to $401.0 million from $368.7 million a year earlier....

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HORIZONS BETAPRO S&P 500 SHORT TERM VIX INVERSE ETF $2.26 (Toronto symbol HVI; Market cap: $20.2 million) moves inversely to the S&P 500 VIX short-term futures index....

Poland has a troubled history of foreign occupation and communist government. However, the country moved away from that political system in 1990, joined NATO in 1999 and was accepted into the European Union in 2004. This has encouraged stability and helped to increase prosperity.


This ETF holds many of Poland’s top public companies.


ISHARES MSCI POLAND ETF $24 (New York symbol EPOL; TSI Network ETF Rating: Aggressive; Market cap: $328.0 million) tracks the performance of the largest publicly listed Polish companies.


Financial Services account for 47% of its assets....