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Many financial stocks, and especially banks, suffered big drops in early 2023. That was after the high-profile failures of several U.S. regional banks, including Silicon Valley Bank.

Going forward, the outlook for Canadian banks is more stable than for U.S....

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ETFs

Pass on this ETF: ProShares Short MidCap 400 ETF

PROSHARES SHORT MIDCAP 400 ETF $22.44 (New York symbol MYY) provides daily inverse exposure to the S&P MidCap 400 Index—the ETF’s price will rise when the S&P 400 Index declines and vice versa.

We generally advise against short selling for many of the same reasons that we advise against options trading, leverage, currency speculation and bond trading....

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ETFs

Profit from U.S. infrastructure spending

Governments around the world know the benefits that flow from developing better infrastructure. However, their stretched budgets and their reluctance to increase taxes constrain their ability to take on those projects. This provides opportunities for public companies to develop and manage these assets.

Meanwhile, companies with exposure to U.S....

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How To Invest

Here’s our Aggressive Growth Portfolio for August 2023

You Can See Our Aggressive Growth Portfolio For August 2023 Here.

If you’re like most investors, you should invest the major portion of your money in stocks from our Conservative Growth Portfolio....

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Growth Stocks

Updating your Aggressive stocks: ShawCor, Nutrien, & SNC-Lavalin

SHAWCOR LTD. $20 (www.mattr.com) remains a buy. As part of its re-organization, ShawCor plans to change its legal name to Mattr. As a result, the stock now trades under the “MATR” symbol instead of “SCL.” The re-organization mainly involves selling businesses that serve the oil and gas industry, such as pipeline coating....

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Energy Stocks

Suncor’s oil sands focus will benefit investors

Following a strategic review—driven by pressure from activist investor Elliott Investment Management—Suncor has decided to hang onto its Petro-Canada chain of gas stations. It’s also shifting its focus to its core oil sands projects in Alberta and to improving its efficiency....

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Dividend Stocks

Tolling deal cuts Enbridge’s risk

ENBRIDGE INC. $49 is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol ENB; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 2.0 billion; Market cap: $98.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.9; Dividend yield: 7.2%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.enbridge.com) operates pipelines that pump oil and natural gas from Western Canada eastward as well as to the U.S....

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Value Stocks

Use our updates to enhance your portfolio

LEON’S FURNITURE LTD. $21 is a buy for aggressive investors. The retailer (Toronto symbol LNF; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 67.9 million; Market cap: $1.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.6; Dividend yield: 3.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.leons.ca) sells furniture and appliances through 303 stores, mainly under the Leon’s and The Brick banners.

Leon’s now plans to transfer its 5.2 million square feet of wholly owned real estate holdings to a real estate investment trust (REIT)....

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Energy Stocks

Imperial rewards its shareholders

IMPERIAL OIL LTD. $65 is a buy. This company (Toronto symbol IMO; Conservative and Income Growth Portfolios, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 584.2 million; Market cap: $38.0 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.7; Dividend yield: 3.1%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.imperialoil.ca) gets about 90% of its production from oil sands operations in Alberta....

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Dividend Stocks

New businesses enhance their outlooks

Telus and its recent spinoff, Telus International, recently completed significant acquisitions. While the use of acquisitions to expand adds risk, we feel these new operations will spur their profits for years to come.

TELUS CORP. $25 is your #1 Income Buy for 2023. The company (Toronto symbol T; Conservative Growth and Income Portfolios, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 1.45 billion; Market cap: $36.3 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.9; Dividend yield: 5.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.telus.com) is Canada’s second-largest wireless carrier (after BCE) with 12.16 million subscribers....

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Spinoffs

One of the ways a company can try to unlock its own hidden value is by creating a separate company out of a corporate subsidiary. The parent company can either sell stock in the new company to the public, or spin it off—hand the stock out to its own investors.

Dividend Stocks

Dividend stocks make cash payouts that serve as a way for companies to share the wealth they’ve accumulated. These payouts are drawn from earnings and cash flow and paid to the shareholders of the company. Typically, these dividends are paid quarterly, although they may be paid annually or even monthly as well.

ETFs

What are ETFs?

ETF is an acronym for exchange traded fund. These exchange traded funds are used to track indexes as closely as possible, since investors cannot actually buy an index outright.

Value Stocks

What are value stocks?

One of the sweetest and most profitable pleasures of successful investing is to buy high-quality “value stocks” (or stocks that are reasonably priced, if not cheap, in relation to its sales, earnings or assets), then hold on to them as mainstream investors recognize the value and push up the share price.

Blue Chip Stocks

Blue chip stocks are big, well-established, dividend-paying corporations with strong business prospects. These are companies that also have sound management that should be able to make the right moves to keep competing successfully in a changing marketplace.

Penny Stocks

A penny stock in general trades for under five dollars a share, and as the name implies, sometimes for pennies. Most of the time they’re young companies, or start-ups in speculative markets like mining or technology.

Growth Stocks

Growth stocks are companies that are likely to have sales and earnings growth well above market average. Frequently they pay few, if any, dividends. Instead they typically reinvest any extra cash flow to promote further growth. Chosen wisely—according to Pat McKeough’s advice—high-quality growth-oriented stocks can be worthwhile additions to most well-diversified portfolios.

Wealth Management

Wealth management is the practice of putting your savings to work so that it continues to grow over your lifetime and will also benefit your heirs. Wealth management encompasses many different areas of investing like long term investment planning and retirement planning.

Mining Stocks

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.

How To Invest

Pat McKeough has been making investing for beginners simple—and profitable—by helping investors make big gains for more than 25 years. His advice to beginning investors is the same as it is for all investors: buy high-quality, mostly dividend paying stocks (or ETFs that hold these stocks) and evenly spread your investments over the five main economic sectors (Resources, Manufacturing, Finance, Utilities and Consumer). Pat also believes investors should avoid stocks in the broker/media limelight and focus on those with hidden or little-noticed assets.

Energy Stocks

What are energy stocks?

Businesses that work in the extraction, refining and delivery of energy sources such as natural gas, oil, uranium and coal, are considered energy stocks.