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VANECK VECTORS VIETNAM ETF, $18.04, is a buy for aggressive investors. This emerging-markets ETF (New York symbol VNM) taps the country’s leading firms as well as foreign firms that get a significant share of their revenue from this Southeast Asian nation. The fund started up in August 2009. Its MER is 0.68%.

Your top holdings include Vingroup (conglomerate), 9.0%; Vinhomes (real estate), 7.6%; Masan Group (food), 7.1%; Hoa Phat Group (iron and steel), 6.5%; Vix Securities, 5.6%; and SSI Securities, 5.5%. Other holdings include Vietnam Dairy at 5.1%.

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Energy Stocks

Expect more ARC buybacks

ARC RESOURCES, $25.18, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol ARX; Shares o/s: 581.7 million; Market cap: $14.6 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 3.0%; www.arcresources.com) produces natural gas as well as oil. Its average output of 364,705 barrels of oil equivalent per day is 62% natural gas and 38% oil.

ARC plans to keep buying back its shares.

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How To Invest

Here’s our CWA ETF Portfolio for October 2025

Index funds are mutual funds that invest so as to match market-index performance. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) hold baskets of stocks that represent stock indexes.
ETFs trade on stock exchanges, just like stocks.

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Growth Stocks

G. Weston holds top assets

GEORGE WESTON LTD., $84.35, is a buy. The holding company (Toronto symbol WN; Shares o/s: 385.1 million; Market cap: $32.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; Dividend yield: 1.4%; www.weston.ca) gives you exposure to its 52.6% stake in Loblaw and 61.7% stake in Choice Properties REIT (symbol CHP.UN on Toronto). That’s one of Canada’s biggest REITs.

In the quarter ended June 14, 2025, George Weston’s revenue rose 5.2%, to $14.82 billion from $14.09 billion a year earlier. Per-share earnings rose 4.4%, to $1.02 from $0.98 (all per-share amounts adjusted for 3-for-1 split on August 18, 2025).

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Growth Stocks

Our updates for safety-conscious investors

METRO INC., $93.28, is a buy. The company (Toronto symbol MRU; Shares o/s: 217.5 million; Market cap: $20.3 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 1.6%; www.metro.ca) operates 1,006 grocery stores and 639 drugstores, in Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick.

A problem with the refrigeration system has forced Metro to temporarily shut down its Frozen Distribution Centre in Toronto.

The company has implemented its contingency plan, which will let it keep supplying frozen products to its stores.

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Mining Stocks

Newmont raises more cash

NEWMONT CORP., $85.95, remains a buy for long-term growth and as a hedge against inflation. The company (New York symbol NEM; Shares outstanding: 1.1 billion; Market cap: $94.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 1.2%; www.newmont.com) is the world’s largest gold miner, with major mines in North America, South America, Australia, and Africa. In addition to gold, the company produces copper, silver, lead and zinc.

Newmont has now sold its entire 13% ownership stake in gold miner Orla Mining (symbol OLA on Toronto) for $439 million.

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Dividend Stocks

These utilities sell secure, contracted power

ALGONQUIN POWER & UTILITIES, $7.98, is a buy. The utility (Toronto symbol AQN; Shares outstanding: 768.0 million; Market cap: $6.1 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 4.8%; www.algonquinpower.com) completed the sale of its 42.2% ownership stake in Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure plc in December 2024 for $1.08 billion (all figures except share price and market cap in U.S. dollars).

Algonquin also sold its non-regulated renewable energybusiness to LS Power in January 2025 for up to $2.5 billion.

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ETFs

Here, rewards outweigh risks

ISHARES MSCI TAIWAN INDEX FUND, $64.14, is a buy for aggressive investors. The ETF (New York symbol EWT; buy or sell through brokers) gives you direct exposure to some of the top public companies of this East Asian powerhouse economy.

The fund’s largest holding is Taiwan Semiconductor at 24.1% of assets. That’s high for one stock, but the company continues to be the world’s top maker of the most complex computer chips, with customers such as Apple. Other top stocks held by the ETF include Hon Hai (contract electronics maker) at 5.8%; and MediaTek (computer chips) at 4.2%.

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ETFs

Five of these ETFs are right for new buying

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Energy Stocks

Cenovus sells refineries

CENOVUS ENERGY, $23.32, is a buy for long-term gains. Canada’s third-largest oil producer (Toronto symbol CVE; Shares outstanding: 1.8 billion; Market cap: $42.0 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Average; Dividend yield: 3.4%; www.cenovus.com) has now agreed to sell its 50% interest in WRB Refining LP to its joint venture partner Phillips 66 (symbol PSX on New York.

The sales price is $1.9 billion, and Cenovus will use the funds to pay down its debt and buy back shares.

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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.