All eyes on the U.S. Fed now, and it's likely they will cut rates at the end of July then sometime later. It's accomodating for stock markets which make him quite optimistic about the markets. The markets are still trading at reasonable multiples in New York as well as Toronto....Apple remains good value. He's still consolidating core, defensive names and it's working well for him. He predicts that Trump will hold the US-China trade deal through the 2020 campaign, so buckle up. This will drag on long after the G20 Summit.

It's under heavy pressure from an overhang from the resources slump and, before, the steel tarffis. There are better opportunities elsewhere.

It's more weighted to oil, and pays a strong 6% yield. He is light in oil producers now, only 3-5% of his holdings. He doesn't know RDS that well. Oil overall is in decline; there's a perfect storm in oil (Venezuela) and yet oil is not surging higher. RDS itself is a reasonably good company. If you are bullish oil, hold and wait.

Is it real estate reflected in its current price? The pharmacy retail space has come off a lot due to disruption. In this space, he bought Walmart instead; they do everything better yet cheaper. Disruption will make it harder for WBA to compete. The real estate is not valued in, but nothing tells him that it should either. Pharmacy retail is another industry under scrutiny, and he feels Walmart will prevail.

It benefits from Huawei's woes. He likes CSCO. It pays a small dividend.

He likes the midstreams. IPL used to be his biggest oil stock until they started buying storage tanks abroad which he felt distracted from their core business. He didn't like that they went outside Canada to ramp up their earnings. IPL pays an 8.6% dividend which is safe, because they have long-term take-or-pay contracts. He may re-buy this later.

(A Top Pick Mar 06/19, Up 13%) Also a top pick.

(A Top Pick Mar 06/19, Up 7%) He likes the Brookfield family. Brookfield takes care of funding, having investors for global investments. He likes that they're investing in India infrastructure. They can go anywhere in the world and buy strategic assets like water treatment and transmission lines is unparalleled. It continues to do well. Good managers.

(A Top Pick Mar 06/19, Up 4%) Still likes it. It's doing well. Pays in USD. He likes the management team. He's concentrated in industrials, especially in Canada, as well as the U.S.

He got concerned with the lawsuit, sold and bought SLF instead, but there's nothing wrong with MFC. He has shifted away from insurance to REITs, because the latter will benefit when interest rates are cut. You will do fine with MFC in the long term. Pay a 4.3% dividend, so you're paid to wait. This should drift a little higher. The valuation is reasonable, about 1x book.

Should I replace a floating-rate preferred ETF with a US Treasury ETF? No, because the market is pricing in three interest rate cuts this year. The US 10-year is down to 2%. If you did make this move, then you have to time it very carefully, playing it for 40-50 basis points, then shift back into something with protection as yields rise again. He'd rather hold onto that rate-reset amd be ready when rates move up later--and they will at some point (maybe in 6-12 months).

He owns Verizon instead where he'd rather be when 5G falls into place. Verizon is focussed on 5G. AT&T is not ready because they are distracted by merger talks. Switch to Verizon if you hold AT&T.

He prefers another name, Crown Castle, CCI-N, which does the same thing as AMT-N, but trades at a 2-multiple point discount to American Tower. AMT is the bellweather, but CCI benefits from the towers they run but also in small-cell applications, which is like the next generation of 5G. CCI also pays a nice dividend and benefits from lower rates.

He really likes this. A really interested Montreal company. They help brick-and-mortar run accounting, point-of-sale and other ways to run those businesses. The IPO was priced correctly. He sold out at $25 and missed this last leg. It is wildly popular. Wait for a lower stock price under $30. Business will be volatile, but LSPD is the real deal.

Given the lower rates offered to consumers by Canadian telcos. Investors think the rate cuts (unlimited rates for broadband) it'll cut into their profitablility, but this model has existed in the US for a long time and the American carriers are still very successful. The Canadian telcos needed to correct its offerings to consumers in this way. He prefers Rogers, whose stock has performed a little better. Bell is spending more in laying fibre, while Rogers is spending on 5G.