The week before Christmas, there were 18 Stock Top Picks in a wide range of industries: Industrials, Consumer, Technology, Financials, Communications and Basic Materials. Here are this week’s Top Picks as selected by: David Fingold, Stan Wong, Paul Gardner, Ross […]
From work at home technology to e-commerce stocks, the technology sector has been hotter than ever this year. The online trend, as well as a move to cashless payment systems will mean another year of growth for this sector in […]
The global transition to clean power and growing demand for renewable energy has been a tailwind for this sector. With the ESG movement, more and more renewable energy companies are seeing large investments from funds and are awarded higher multiples. […]
Gaming Stocks We’re extending last week’s coverage of video games to look at a few more gaming stocks, but also at a couple of chipmakers, who are essential to the industry. Unfortunately, the rising number of Covid cases continues to […]
Even though the Nasdaq has fallen nearly 10% this month, top tech stocks continue to capture the imaginations and capital of investors. A spate of tech IPO’s on both sides of the border, such as Snowflake and Nuvei (discussed last […]
It’s another round of Battle of the Stocks. This week we focus on clusters of Canadian stocks that investors commonly compare, and weigh the strengths and drawbacks of each. Here we go: Alimentation Couche-Tard vs. Parkland Fuel Couche-Tard is one […]
Former Market Darlings As in physics, the law of markets decrees that stocks move up and down. However, the following stocks blazed to sudden, dizzying heights before sinking or crashing, caused by market forces or criminality. Have those stocks recovered […]
The medical space has been a hot sector these past few years, and have widely outperformed the market. These sectors are defensive as they are not tied to an economic cycle. Furthermore, medical, biotech and gene-editing firms will profit from […]
Sideways. Flat. Don’t buy. Hold. Range-bound. Sell. No, I’m not talking about oil stocks. I’m talking about banks, both Canadian and American. Nobody has said anything, but the banks have crept up this month. Royal Bank, for instance, has just […]
With interest rates slipping and expected to remain low, investors are scouring the traditional bond proxies for yield: utilities, telcos and REITs. Feel free to research names like Algonquin Energy, BCE and CAR.UN-T on Stockchcase, but this story focuses on […]
Last week we looked at restaurant stocks, meaning fast food. Some names were defensive, some not. In a recession, a safer bet for investors is food. Food stocks, whether meatless burders or supermartkets, are consumer staples. In a boom and […]
Hungry for restaurant stocks? With markets late in the cycle, are restaurant stocks still worth sampling? Any upside? Here’s the menu: Restaurant Brands International (QSR-T) Restaurant Brands International (QSR-T) remains the king of Canadian resto stocks, holding Timmy’s, Popeye’s and […]
It’s August. The US-China trade war is deepening, interest rates are sinking and a hard Brexit is looming. Volatility looms. when markets plunge 3% in one day, do you: a) sell b) buy c) do nothing? The best answer: B […]
Your RRSP is your money garden: plant some stocks and ETFs, walk away and watch them grow. Maybe you have five or 45 years to contribute to your RRSP until you must convert it into a RRIF at age 71. […]
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