This fall’s credit market freeze has been particularly unkind to companies with high leverage, impending debt maturities and unfunded expansion projects.
Battered stock is cheap and has great potential for capital gains
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Anthony Scilipoti was investigating accounting shenanigans at Nortel and Royal Group long before the RCMP went poking around.
Investors might remember the 1990s as the years of the dot-com boom, which led to outrageous gains in the stock market. But they were also the years when productivity in the United States, and in much of the developed world, went through a dramatic shift that got many observers wondering if the economy had entered a productivity revolution.
Bank shares have fallen 25 per cent from their peaks in 2007. But investors have many reasons to be concerned
Here are five top-performing stocks on the benchmark S&P/TSX 60 index that still have room to move.
The venerable Dow Jones industrial average has had a tough 12 months amid deepening economic worries in the United States, falling by 13 per cent. But three stalwarts on the 30-stock index stand out.
But analysts warn sector is dangerous road, with much hype, stock correction, possible product oversupply
Plagued by economic uncertainty, small-capitalization stocks have had a tough time this year.
With Canadian banks posting battered profit numbers, many investors may be wondering if this is the moment to buy low.
While fears of a global slowdown have turned many investors away from nickel, lead and zinc, some base-metals are still showing strength.
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