It’s a Sunday smorgasbord with a look at Canadian bank dividend hike(s) potential. We’ll check in with FT at Million Dollar Journey – a wealth building update. Rob at Passive Canadian income pitches in on the dividend update front as well. There’s a Robo roundup at the Globe & Mail. FiPhysician shows why retirees should […]
Stocks had their best week of the year on the Sunday Reads.
Stock markets in the U.S. cheered a rate pause and a weaker than expected jobs report. U.S. stocks had their best week of the year and of course, Canadian and international stocks played along. Equities notched sizable weekly gains as investors grew hopeful that the Federal Reserve’s rate-hiking campaign is over. The Dow was up […]
Putting your cash to work as big Canadian dividend stocks suffer on the Sunday Reads.
The upside of the rising rate environment is the rising savings account and GIC rates. Throw in greater yields on shorter term bond funds as well. We can even go one step further; the rising rates for ‘risk-free’ cash also leads to bigger dividends. The big dividend payers, often call bond proxies, compete with the […]
When should you rebalance your portfolio? And lessons from the Tangerine portfolios.
How often should you rebalance your portfolio? There’s good news on that front as less is more. We’ll take a look at a very telling chart from Frederick Vettese. And I take another look at the very telling perfomance table for the core Tangerine Portfolios. In this post I will also take you through my […]
RBC shows the way as Canadian banks report earnings on the Sunday Reads.
It’s what most Canadian investors were waiting for – Canadian banks earnings reports. The two biggest banks, RBC and TD were first out of the gate. The general consensus among bank analysts was that the banks would show softening earnings. While TD stuck to the script, RBC (once again) had other plans. RBC is not […]
Looking to Canadian stocks on the Sunday Reads.
Canadian stocks are cheap, or dirt cheap as one of my recent Sunday Reads offered. Pessimism and risk can create lower stock prices. Another post recently noticed that Canada was slipping. Our productivity is nowhere to be seen. We don’t appear to have a national growth strategy beyond (much needed) immigration and buying some battery […]