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We think conservative investors can hold up to 10% of their portfolios in foreign stocks. One way to do that is to buy carefully chosen exchange traded funds (ETFs) that have an overseas focus.

The best ETFs offer very low management fees and well-diversified, tax-efficient portfolios of highquality stocks....

Canada’s Alcan Inc. was acquired in 2007 by Rio Tinto for $38.1 billion in what was then the biggest metals and mining transaction in history. Here’s a look back at TSI’s analysis of Alcan.

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BANK OF MONTREAL, $83.44, Toronto symbol BMO, gained 1% this week after announcing it will raise its dividend. The bank also said it’s setting aside more funds to cover potential bad loans to Canadian oil and gas firms; and with more of its customers banking online, it will cut 4% of its workforce. In its fiscal 2016 second quarter, which ended April 30, 2016, Bank of Montreal earned $1.152 billion. That’s a gain of 0.5% over $1.146 billion a year earlier. Due to fewer shares outstanding, earnings per share rose 1.2%, to $1.73 from $1.71. These figures exclude severance payments and other unusual items. On that basis, the latest earnings missed the consensus estimate of $1.75 a share....

BUCKEYE PARTNERS L.P. $73 (New York symbol BPL; Income Portfolio, Utilities sector; Units outstanding: 130.3 million; Market cap: $9.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.0; Dividend yield: 6.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.buckeye.com) operates 9,700 kilometres of pipelines in the northeastern and Midwestern U.S. Its network pumps gasoline, jet fuel and other petroleum products. In the past few years, Buckeye has steadily expanded its oil storage operations. It now has 117 terminals in the U.S. with a total capacity of 55.6 million barrels. The company also owns seven marine storage terminals that serve ocean-going oil tankers in New York City, Corpus Christi, Texas, Puerto Rico, St. Lucia and The Bahamas. These facilities have a combined capacity of 62.3 million barrels....

BUCKEYE PARTNERS L.P. $73 (New York symbol BPL; Income Portfolio, Utilities sector; Units outstanding: 130.3 million; Market cap: $9.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.0; Dividend yield: 6.6%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.buckeye.com) operates 9,700 kilometres of pipelines in the northeastern and Midwestern U.S. Its network pumps gasoline, jet fuel and other petroleum products. In the past few years, Buckeye has steadily expanded its oil storage operations. It now has 117 terminals in the U.S. with a total capacity of 55.6 million barrels. The company also owns seven marine storage terminals that serve ocean-going oil tankers in New York City, Corpus Christi, Texas, Puerto Rico, St. Lucia and The Bahamas. These facilities have a combined capacity of 62.3 million barrels....

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CAMECO CORP. $14.91 (Toronto symbol CCO; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (306- 956-6200; www.cameco.com; Shares outstanding: 395.8 million; Market cap: $6.0 billion; Dividend yield 2.7%) is the world’s biggest uranium producer. It has large, high-grade reserves, lowcost operations and several mining sites.

Cameco has now closed its Rabbit Lake mine in northern Saskatchewan....

CAMECO CORP. $14.91 (Toronto symbol CCO; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk) (306- 956-6200; www.cameco.com; Shares outstanding: 395.8 million; Market cap: $6.0 billion; Dividend yield 2.7%) is the world’s biggest uranium producer. It has large, high-grade reserves, lowcost operations and several mining sites. Cameco has now closed its Rabbit Lake mine in northern Saskatchewan. The company made the decision because of falling uranium prices and excess supply on global markets. Uranium prices have plunged from an already low $35 U.S. a pound in January 2016 to $27 today. Rabbit Lake has been in operation since 1975, and contributed about 14% of Cameco’s uranium output in 2015....

DEVON ENERGY CORP. $34.12 (New York symbol DVN; TSINetwork Rating: Speculative) (405-235- 3611; www.dvn.com; Shares outstanding: 523.9 million; Market cap: $18.1 billion; Dividend yield: 0.7%) is one of the largest U.S.-based oil and natural gas explorers and producers....