Archie, a Chinese Crested, is seen here prior to winning World's Ugliest Dog competition at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, Calif. in 2006.
Investing

This week's Stars and Dogs

A look at the companies that caught our eye, for better or worse, this week

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Market Lab

Global investors pour cash into Canadian stocks

Foreign investors bought $13.6-billion of Canadian securities in September

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President Barack Obama
The Buy Side

Cool it. Slow down. Don't buy the rthetoric

Obama and others are masterful speakers who can sway you, but don't let an investment salesperson convince you with words alone, writes Avner Mandelman

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Portfolio Strategy

The bad boys of the ETF world

Exchange-traded funds are the hot investment these days. But the bandwagon effect has also led to the creation of unsuitable ones

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Derek DeCloet

An iPhone app for everyone

What if Canadian wireless junkies could have a set of applications worthy of our fractious media industry?

Schizas' Mailbag

Far West Mining: Trade on probability, not possibility

It's possible that I could date Cindy Crawford, but the probability of that happening is zero, says Lou Schizas

Neil Reynolds

Only democracy can clean up the planet

Save the ballot box and save the world

Vox

A beaten-up Manulife looks awfully tempting

The selloff seems harsh: Manulife can now absorb greater shocks, and its returns to shareholders are generous

Chinese shoes put some kick into IPO market

awillis@globeandmail.com

Investing

Is it inflation or deflation that investors need to worry about?

Economists have warned that both are potentially on the horizon. Gail Bebee looks into the issue

Packaging firm CCL Industries a defensive play

stocktrends.ca

Reguly in Europe

The timely death of a bad idea

The bancassurance model fails. Good riddance, writes Eric Reguly

Number Cruncher
The hottest ETFs on the TSX

Here are some of the top performing ETFs so far this year

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Home Cents
The many ways to give

Getting rid of an old car? It can help fund a charity of your choice

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Globe Investor Editors' blog
Our new market spotlight tool

Faster than before, with annoying bugs removed

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Number Cruncher
These U.S. stocks are in the right cycle

High-quality U.S. cyclical companies according to RBC screening process

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Fund Watch
Kelly Capital offers 100x leveraged ETFs

Spoof reels in investors, even though it said "extreme leverage employed will cause both funds to go bankrupt"

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Streetwise
Why home prices are frothy

Scotia Capital warns the residential real estate market is expensive by most measures

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Market Blog
At the close: Down but resilient

Markets held up well to a week of hard news

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