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Canadian IPO market struggles

Canada’s market for initial public offerings stalled in second-quarter 2012, says PwC’s quarterly survey of Canadian equity markets. In the past few months, only two new issues – both real estate trusts with a total value of $185 million – were introduced on the TSX. Read: REITs offer long-term stability The 32 new issues on […]

By Staff |July 3, 2012

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Canadian equities bounce back

Despite a dismal global outlook, Canadians equities are doing well.

By Vikram Barhat |July 3, 2012

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Could gold fall to $700?

The risk of deflation in developed economies’ growth and technical pointers turning bearish, could cause gold to drop dramatically, even to $700 an ounce. Yoni Jacobs, Chief Investment Strategist at Chart Prophet Capital, told CNBC that if Gold dropped below the psychological benchmark of $1,500 an ounce, panic selling could follow. Read: Is gold overvalued? […]

By Staff |June 29, 2012

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Select durable investments

You shouldn’t worry about black-swan events, says Nassim Taleb. You should worry about an investment’s vulnerability to those events – in other words, its fragility.

By Melissa Shin |June 29, 2012

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