Despite a 13% surge at the beginning of 2012, silver stocks have stagnated recently as China's factory output, retail sales and investment data have all slowed, along with a further drop in the country’s inflation rate to a twenty month low.
March 13, 2012
1 min read
An Ontario court has approved a plan submitted by the OSC and IIROC to distribute funds to investors burned in the third-party Asset-Backed Commercial Paper (ABCP) fiasco that began in 2007.
By Staff |March 13, 2012
1 min read
Wow! What a busy week. Things started poorly for investors as markets violently adjusted to the prospect of slower global economic growth. China cut her 2012 economic growth target and Europe reported its economy shrank in the fourth quarter last year. Greece also weighed with the lack of progress on the Private Market Initiative (PMI) to swap existing bonds for new bonds.
By David Andrews |March 12, 2012
5 min read
Four new members have joined the Canadian ETF Association, strengthening its membership.
By Staff |March 9, 2012
1 min read
It might sound like a bit of an understatement, but the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), has announced that the government of Greece has experienced “a credit event”.
By Staff |March 9, 2012
2 min read
It’s important to understand the different classes of assets within infrastructure, and invest according to the growth prospects of the economy in which it operates,
By Staff |March 8, 2012
2 min read
As the markets become more convinced that China will manage an economic soft-landing, fund managers have turned positive on resurgent China equities.
By Vikram Barhat |March 8, 2012
2 min read
What does the “new world order” mean for individual investors? Colin Ripsman, vice-president with Phillips, Hager & North, delved into that question at the firm’s pension trustee education seminar last week in Toronto.
By Brooke Smith |March 8, 2012
3 min read
The relevance of the original G7 is fading fast. Not only is China now the world’s second largest economy, but Brazil has reached sixth place in the world.
March 7, 2012
1 min read
Experts are calling the recent tumbling of commodity prices and resource-related equities an overreaction to China’s lowered growth forecast.
By Vikram Barhat |March 7, 2012
3 min read
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