How To Invest

In addition, Pat thinks then beginner investors should cultivate two important qualities: a healthy sense of skepticism and patience.

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Investors should approach all investments with a healthy sense of skepticism. This can help keep you out of fraudulent stocks that masquerade as high-quality stocks. It will also keep you out of legally operated, but poorly managed, companies that promise more than they can possibly deliver.

If you are a new investor, you should also realize that losing patience can cause you to sell your best choices right before a big rise. All too often, investors buy a promising stock just as it enters a period of price stagnation. Even the best-performing stocks run into these unpredictable phases from time to time. They move mainly sideways in a wide range for months or years before their next big rise begins. (Stock brokers often refer to these stocks as “dead money.”)

If you lack patience, you run a big risk of selling your best choices in the midst of one of these phases, prior to the next big move upward. If you lose patience and sell, you are particularly likely to do so in the low end of the trading range, when stock prices have weakened and confidence in the stock has waned.

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The company’s more than 5,100 customers include 1,000 global financial institutions and thousands of retail giants....
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Meanwhile, the company still owns the Kumtor Mine in the Kyrgyz Republic....
RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORP., $99.59, New York symbol RTX, is a buy for long-term gains.

The company took its current form on April 3, 2020, with the merger of United Technologies Corp. (old symbol UTX) and Raytheon Co. (old symbol RTN). It’s now a leading maker of commercial aircraft equipment, electronic systems for military aircraft and radar systems, and guided missiles.

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TORONTO-DOMINION BANK, $98.54, Toronto symbol TD, is a buy.

TD is now buying U.S. banking firm First Horizon Corporation (New York symbol FHN). Based in Memphis, Tennessee, it operates 412 branches in 12 states that serve 1.1 million customers.

The purchase will make TD’s banking operations the sixth largest in the U.S., with assets of $614 billion U.S....
CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE, $159.56, Toronto symbol CM, remains a buy.

CIBC last raised your quarterly dividend with the January 2022 payment. Investors now receive $1.61 a share, up 10.3% from $1.46. The new annual rate of $6.44 yields a high 4.0%....
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A: Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., $12.92, symbol IVN on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 1.2 billion; Market cap: $15.6 billion; www.ivanhoemines.com), is a Vancouver-based mineral exploration and development company.

Ivanhoe has three main mines/projects:
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The company’s properties are leased to major gaming and hospitality operators, including Caesars Entertainment, Century Casinos, Hard Rock International, JACK Entertainment LLC and Penn National Gaming.

Vici also has an investment in the Chelsea Piers development in New York City and owns four championship golf courses and 34 acres of undeveloped land adjacent to the Las Vegas Strip.

On August 4, 2021, the REIT announced an acquisition that would see it acquire MGM Growth Properties LLC (symbol MGP on New York) for $17.2 billion....
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TC generates steady cash flow for investors mainly through a 93,300-kilometre pipeline network that pumps natural gas from Alberta to eastern Canada and the U.S. Its other operations include 4,900 kilometres of crude oil pipelines and seven power plants.

The company will now raise your quarterly dividend by 3.4%....