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Has been a very, very consistent performer. It always turns up on those lists of “the best 15 dividend growers” etc. Fairly expensive. If you see a 5%-10% pullback, that is probably going to be as cheap as it gets. Dividend yield of .9%, but over the last 5 years have grown their dividend by 20%.

Through the financial crisis it cut its dividend, but was actually able to raise money from the private sector. Over the longer-term, it has been an awful performer. He is back to where he was 15-16 years ago. The difficulty is their exposure to emerging markets. The major difficulty is that it is still headquartered in the UK and has decided to remain there. Banking in developed markets, with the possible exception of Canada, is not really a very attractive business longer-term, because if you do make any money either the staff gets it or the government will tax it. He would Sell.

(Market Call Minute.) This a Hold after their dividend cut, because potash prices are pretty depressed.

(Market Call Minute.) Pick and pay is not going to be as bad as had been expected.

(Market Call Minute.) A pretty cheap stock, but the difficulty is that it is the biggest stock in the world, and how much bigger does it get.

(Market Call Minute.) Indian software company. A good, longer-term play. India continues to be an attractive market.

As one of the 3 biggest supermarket chains in Canada, it is very unusual to be down 25% in the year. They mishandled the Safeway integration. Management should succeed in turning the operations around. Dividend yield of 1.73%.

A low risk way of playing oil. They do electronic drill recording, and have 68%-95% market share in the various things they do. Although management says they won’t see a come back in terms of rigs until 2017, this is a safe way to play it. Raised the dividend last year. Have no debt. Dividend yield of 3.92%.

3^rd largest global consumer product company, and 59% of it is in emerging markets. Over the long-term, you have done 3% compound over the last 3-5 years, and 7% compound over the last decade. 2.93% dividend yield.