An affluent new senior citizen seeks ways to increase spending power without risk
Advisors continue to rate equity research strongly; scores for mutual fund research improve
Although U.S. households are seeing a destruction of wealth as home prices tumble, Canadian households are in good shape financially. This bodes well for continued growth in consumer spending in 2008, suggests a National Bank Financial Ltd. report. Canadian debt loads — mortgage and consumer debt as a percentage of net worth — remain relatively […]
Major players in Japan and Europe present interesting investment opportunities in this logistics subsector
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The global credit crunch and the resulting poor performance of equities played havoc with financial services firms’ bottom lines in the final quarter of 2007. Only 40% of 48 publicly traded companies surveyed reported improved earnings in the quarter than in the same period a year earlier.The big winner in Investment Executive’s quarterly profit survey […]
The U.S. got into the current slowdown/recession because consumers took advantage of low interest rates and used their homes as ATMs. Will they make the same mistake again?Already, applications for refinancing mortgages have more than doubled since December because of the sharp decline in U.S. mortgage rates, says Stéfane Marion, assistant chief economist at National […]
But lower share prices present an opportunity to invest in the subsector