A: Republic Services Inc., $126.75, symbol RSG on New York (Shares outstanding: 315.9 million; Market cap: $40.8 billion; www.republicservices.com), is a leading U.S. waste management business....

A: Miniso Group Holdings (ADR), $7.22, symbol MNSO on New York (Shares outstanding: 316.7 million; Market cap: $2.7 billion; www.miniso.com), is a fast-growing retailer that opened its first store in China in 2013....

Corteva shares offer investors a number of attractive pluses: Not only is the company at the forefront of key agricultural trends, but a prominent activist continues to urge Corteva to make changes that may raise the company’s earnings and/or its stock price.

As well, the stock is a spinoff....

WESTROCK CO., $39.39, symbol WRK on New York, is a leading provider of packaging materials and systems. It operates through 320 locations spread across North America, South America, Europe and Asia.

The company took its current form on July 1, 2015, when it merged with two other firms: Rock-Tenn Company and Mead-Westvaco Corporation....

YAMANA GOLD INC., $5.95, is a hold. The miner (symbol YRI on Toronto) owns and operates five gold mines, in Canada, Brazil, Chile and Argentina. This includes the Cerro Moro gold/silver mine in Argentina. It started up in mid-2018.

On May 31, 2022, Yamana received a $6.7 billion U.S....

J.P. MORGAN CHASE & CO., $112.95, New York symbol JPM, remains a buy.

The stock lets investors tap the largest banking firm in the U.S., with total assets of $3.84 trillion as of June 30, 2022.

Due to rising fears of a recession, triggered by higher interest rates and inflation, Morgan set aside $1.10 billion to cover potential loan losses in the quarter ended June 30, 2022, compared to a net credit of $2.29 billion a year earlier.

As a result, Morgan’s earnings in the quarter fell 27.0%, to $2.76 a share (or a total of $8.65 billion) from $3.78 a share (or $11.95 billion) a year earlier....

SUNCOR ENERGY INC., $39.32, Toronto symbol SU, is a buy.

The company is Canada’s largest integrated oil firm, with major projects in the Alberta oil sands. Suncor also operates four refineries (three in Canada and one in Colorado), along with 1,875 Petro-Canada gas stations.

With the June 2022 payment, Suncor increased your quarterly dividend by 11.9%....

NUTRIEN LTD., $95.39, Toronto symbol NTR, remains a buy for aggressive investors.

The company is the world’s largest producer of agricultural fertilizers. It took its current form on January 1, 2018, when Agrium Inc. (old symbol AGU) merged with rival Potash Corp....

Oil and gas prices have moved down lately after a big spike earlier this year, but remain high. The future direction of energy prices depends on a lot of things, particularly economic growth rates around the world. Meanwhile, well-established producers took advantage of the weaker prices earlier in the pandemic to pick up properties and employees who are harder to find in more-prosperous times.


Those top companies also have the strength to survive, even if energy prices again drop and to continue paying dividends....

Amazon is now moving further into food-related services through its Prime membership program. The online commerce giant has provided grocery benefits to Prime members under its Whole Foods Market division as a way to make its annual subscription program more valuable—and it’s now adding food delivery.


AMAZON.COM INC., $110.40, is a buy. The company (Nasdaq symbol AMZN; TSINetwork Rating: Average) (www.amazon.com; Shares o/s: 10.2 billion; Market cap: $1.1 trillion; No divds.) has now agreed to add Grubhub to its suite of Prime services in the U.S....