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Fabrice Taylor

Its bottom line doesn't look so pretty when you tote up bill for defending the brand

Market Call

The managing director with Portfolio Management sees the rough patch in the market as an upcoming buying opportunity

Initial public offerings

Facebook's falling price is no great mystery.

Strategy

Strategies to earn income in a low-interest-rate, debt-crisis environment

Market Call

Avenue Investment Management's Paul Gardner details his favourite investments

Bonds

Doubters say 2011’s gains look like the last gasp of a 30-year bull run

After pricing its IPO at $38 a share, the social media giant is expected to deploy its new war chest in a flurry of acquisitions

M&A

Look for resilient firms that are undervalued

Strategy

Some traders are making a profit by outsmarting these systems

Social Media

Massive interest for IPO results in higher price range, several banks have stopped taking orders on the stock

Global Investing

Stocks have fallen so much they’re roughly back to the same levels as in March, 2009

Asset Management

Albert Friedberg also places bets on U.S. housing market turnaround

Schizas' Mailbag

Until there is a trend reversal I would let this one go, says Lou Schizas

Market Call

The portfolio manager reveals his favourite resource stocks

Breakingviews

Clean energy: Goldman goes for the green

Wind turbine

Its $40-billion bet on solar, wind power signals a tipping point

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Investor Clinic

Is there such a thing as being too frugal?

Are your social network buddies worth a penny to you, or maybe a dime? Because they are ‘priceless’ to marketers

People who have money but can’t bring themselves to spend it: more common than you think

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YIELD HOG

High Liner Foods: A good catch for dividend lovers

Workers run the assembly line package fish fillets at the High Liner Foods plant in Lunenburg, NS, March 10, 2010.

Despite recent gains, stock still offers a tempting valuation, provided investors can stomach a lack of liquidity

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VOX

A case for hopping aboard CP

High-priced stock still has some way to go if new management achieves even half of its operating-ratio goal

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Vox

My Facebook status doesn’t include ‘dumb money’

Monitors show the value of the Facebook Inc. stock during morning trading on Monday, May 21.

Some are opining about the death of social media stocks. But there may be other factors behind investor reaction

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Expert's Podium

Yardstick says 'sell,' but it may not measure up

A yardstick suggests it’s time to sell, but it depends how you measure

Shiller P/E ratio says markets are overvalued by 30% – factor in low interest rates, though, and it’s not time to panic

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Portfolio Strategy

Watch your weighting: Leave room for American pie

U.S. indexes give a bigger slice of the pie to tech, health care and consumer products sectors than commodity-rich TSX

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Initial Public Offerings

Why Facebook friended Wall Street

Many of the people who were involved in Facebook's birth eight years ago will become billionaires by the end of the week – if they aren't already. Facebook 'like' icon displayed outside of Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.

The tech darling chose the most traditional method of raising capital for good reason

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Corporate debt a ‘perfect storm’ in the making, S&P warns

The physics of ocean waves are still difficult for existing science to fully explain. Mark Nolan/Getty Images

Some $46-trillion will need financing over the next few years – and credit is bound to get tighter

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Investor Clinic

Is there a way to swap stocks for cash in my RRSP?

Many Canadians are weighing their options as RRSP deadline looms, trying to decide between putting their money in a retirement plan or a tax-free savings account.

Jamie Golombek of CIBC Private Wealth explains the new anti-swap rule and the tax treatment on owning bullion

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What the Charts Say

Bullish on LSI Corp.

Computer keyboard and binary code (Digital Composite)

Shares of U.S. electronics firm pierce through multi-year resistance level

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Insider Trading

CEO Mark Foote buying at Wajax

Toronto, 27/10/11 - Mark Foote, President & CEO of Zellers talks while touring a store at Square One in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Photo By Deborah Baic/The Globe and Mail

Stock of industrial equipment distributor has rising despite turmoil in Europe

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Commodities

Gold’s hasty demise from safe haven to risky asset

Precious metal posts 11th decline in past 13 trading sessions on Greek political fears, slumping Indian demand

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Eye on Equities

As RIM sinks to fresh lows, analysts largely keep targets intact

A woman uses her mobile phone at the Blackberry World Event in Orlando May 1, 2012. In a statement released Monday night, the Waterloo, Ont., company admitted that RIM Australia created the “Wake Up” campaign, which it says involves a series of experiential activities taking place across Sydney and Melbourne.

Also: Dividend hike seen for Laurentian Bank; Iamgold upgraded to a ‘buy’

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Midnight Trader

Today’s small-cap stocks to watch

Canadian issues that are moving on early news

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Traders

Avoid being influenced by the crowd

Two popular stock market strategies can actually reduce returns, studies find

Traders

Is the stock market due for a pullback?

Some analysts like what they see, others can’t look past the U.S. housing mess and job growth

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Online broker rankings

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Online broker stays in top spot by copying the best ideas of other firms without delay, and relentlessly improving on them

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