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A: Bridgemarq Real Estate Services, $13.90, symbol BRE on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 9.5 million; Market cap: $132.5 million; www.bridgemarq.com), is a leading provider of services to residential real estate brokers....

A: Square Inc., $80.51, symbol SQ on New York (Shares outstanding: 423.0 million; Market cap: $34.1 billion; www.squareup.com), provides payment processing and related services to merchants in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Japan, Ireland and the U.K....

SYMANTEC CORP. $20.29 (Nasdaq symbol SYMC; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (650-527-8000; www.symantec.com; Shares outstanding: 639.2 million; Market cap: $13.0 billion; Dividend yield: 1.5%) sells computer-security technology, including antivirus and email-filtering software, to businesses and consumers.


The stock is down 19.9% from its recent peak of $24.77 on April 17, 2019....

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Various plausible arguments can be made in favour of investing in physical commodities or their listed producers. However, the practical problems associated with directly holding commodities make the debate almost irrelevant. Holding a well-diversified basket of publicly-listed producers provides investors with a reasonable alternative.






It’s almost impossible to invest directly in commodities due to the costs involved with their storage....

IBM has a long history of responding to rapid changes in computer technology. As demand for its consulting services and mainframe computers slows, it’s now investing heavily in cloud computing (where customers access software on the web), analytics and artificial intelligence.


We feel the company’s upcoming acquisition of open-source software maker Red Hat will accelerate its transformation, and increase IBM’s earnings for many years to come.


INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP....

These four technology companies continue to invest heavily in research. While that spending depresses their current earnings, it also helps them develop profitable new products to spur earnings for years to come.


INTEL CORP. $51 (Nasdaq symbol INTC; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 4.5 billion; Market cap: $229.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 3.3; Dividend yield: 2.5%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.intel.com) is the world’s leading maker of computer chips: its products power 80% of all personal computers.


In the quarter ended December 29, 2018, Intel’s revenue rose 9.4%, to $18.66 billion from $17.05 billion a year earlier....

SYMANTEC CORP. $23.02 (Nasdaq symbol SYMC; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (650-527-8000; www.symantec.com; Shares outstanding: 638.9 million; Market cap: $14.7 billion; Dividend yield: 1.3%) sells computer-security technology, including antivirus and email-filtering software, to businesses and consumers.


Symantec’s revenue in the fiscal 2019 third quarter, ended December 31, 2018, rose only slightly, to $1.211 billion from $1.209 billion a year earlier....

What are fixed-income investments, and do they have a role in a diversified portfolio? Not as much, in our view, as high-quality blue chip stocks like the ones we recommend

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