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IGM Financial Inc. offers a high 5.9% yield from an expanding asset base with rising revenues -- the stock remains cheap at just 10.0 times forecast earnings.
If you could find a stock that meets a variety of these attractive factors, then you may have found one of the best stocks to buy right now
Texas Instruments Inc. is facing activist investor pushback to scale back its planned expansion, boost free cash flow 40%, and keep improving efficiency.
Most successful investors hold a mix of stocks (or ETFs that hold them) in their portfolios. Indeed, one key component of a well-diversified portfolio is growth stocks. Note, however, that it’s very easy to confuse growth stocks with momentum stocks. Like growth stocks, momentum stocks often move up faster than the market averages....
The Bank of Canada recently cut its benchmark lending rate, from 4.75% to 4.50%, and more cuts seem likely. Lower rates are good news for utilities such as these four, as they reduce their borrowing costs and increase their appeal with bond investors. What’s more, you pay less tax on their dividends compared to bond interest payments.


FORTIS INC....
A: Canadian General Investments Ltd., $38.85, symbol CGI on Toronto (Units outstanding: 20.9 million; Market cap: $790.2 million; www.mmainvestments.com), is a closed-end fund that mainly invests in shares of Canadian companies that it sees as average or above-average in quality.

Established in 1930, it is one of the oldest closed-end funds in North America....
Dear Client,

In July 2024, I commented in our weekly Inner Circle Question & Answer Report that a lot of changes are now going on in the world, particularly in U.S. politics and law. Some of these changes are good and others are bad. Some are trivial and others will have longstanding consequences.

At the time, I said that one of the most far-reaching and beneficial developments in U.S....
TRISURA GROUP LTD., $40.49, symbol TSU on Toronto, took its current form on June 22, 2017, when Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (now Brookfield Corp.) spun off its specialty insurance business as Trisura. Investors received one Trisura share for every 170 Brookfield shares they held.

Trisura provides specialty insurance and services not available through traditional insurers....
BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS INC., $214.47, is a buy. The company, symbol BR on New York, serves the investment industry in three main areas: investor communications, securities processing, and transaction clearing.

Broadridge is best known for processing and distributing proxies and regulatory filings for nearly every publicly traded U.S....
INTEL CORP., $19.71, Nasdaq symbol INTC, remains a buy for patient investors.

The company is the world’s leading maker of computer chips: its products power 65% of all personal computers and 80% of all datacentres.

The company announced that it would cut 15% of its workforce due to slowing demand for chips that power datacentres....