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Top Income Stocks of 2024

The best income stocks should offer a triple advantage.

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What if it’s no joke?

Trump is not known as a great wit.

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The envelope, please

The winners (and losers) of 2024!

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Trump and your money

The next four years are going to be difficult for investors.

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Is Trump good for small caps?

Investors are buying stocks that they think will be winners.

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CanTech stocks beat average

Two CanTech recommendations that are posting good gains this year.

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Disney turn-around takes shape

Streaming, theme parks, cruise lines, and hit movies!

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Searching for dividends

These securities will recover as interest rates stabilize.

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And the winner is…

The best (and the worst) of 2023!

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Interpreting price/book value ratios

The price to book value ratio can be very difficult to interpret and indeed at times provides little to no guidance.

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Even Buffett likes AI

Investment in Snowflake raises eyebrows.

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Utilities recover

There’s been a turnaround in the performance of utilities.

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Investing in tough times

No one is quite sure where the stock markets are going next.

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Deposit insurance needs a boost

Only $100,000 per eligible account.

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Buy now?

Is it a good time to buy stocks?

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An Investor’s Dilemma

Is it better to hold individual stocks like Scotiabank, Rogers, Quebecor, etc., or to hold a dividend fund like HAL?

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Searching for Winners

I searched for more ETFs that may have been overlooked and came up with some interesting ideas.

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Opportunities emerge

Share prices are becoming attractive for top quality companies and beaten down tech leaders.

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It’s Been 25 Years!

By Gordon Pape, Editor and Publisher This is a big year for us. It’s the 25th anniversary of our first full year of publication, and we’ve designed a special logo to mark the occasion. When we first started out a quarter-century ago, we were venturing into new territory. To the best of my knowledge, no […]

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Seeking an inflation refuge

What’s an investor to do?

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My Buy and Hold Portfolio is averaging better than 13 per cent

The target rate of return was originally set at 8 per cent annually.

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Inflation should boost big box store sales

What do consumers do when costs rise? They look for cheaper alternatives. Hello, big box stores.

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Volatile stock, stable dividend

Suitable for investors looking for dependable cash flow and can live with the ups and downs of the share price.

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Own the robots!

By Shawn Allen, Contributing Editor How should investors position themselves as automation and robotics threaten many jobs, particularly in manufacturing? Employees who are not investors may have few options. But for investors, the logical response is to invest in the companies that are benefiting from automation and robotics. Automation has been eliminating jobs since at […]

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Has the tech bubble burst?

Are we about to see another dot.com crash?

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Pipeline Politics

Reports of TC Energy’s death are greatly exaggerated.

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A lump of coal for Christmas

Rock-bottom interest rates lead to people relying on stocks for income.

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U.S. preferreds offer stability and good yields

A good choice is the Brompton Flaherty and Crumrine Investment Grade Preferred ETF

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These stocks will pay off in the next five years

Identify today’s secular trends and invest in companies that will benefit.

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Three stocks to ride out the pandemic

Stocks that will perform well throughout the pandemic and beyond.

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A Biden Presidency?

What would it mean for the markets?

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Danger Signs

Buying stocks? Look out for these red flags.

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Shake-up for High-Yield Portfolio

The portfolio was down a little over 4%. Time for some changes.

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Is it time to go bargain hunting?

The stock market has been persistently optimistic in recent weeks.

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Protecting what you have

The stock market is beaten, there’s turmoil in bonds, where do investors turn?

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Life after Covid

What will the world look like when the crisis ends?

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Separating the wheat from the chaff

Our responsibility at BuildingWealth is to provide guidance on the financial impact of this world crisis.

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Bear Market!

How low will the markets go? How long will this last?

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More Volatility To Come

The longest bull market in history is over.

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The Search For A Vaccine

The situation is more acute by the day.

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Surviving A Market Meltdown

It’s crisis time again!

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Worried about retiring?

Here’s what to do.

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Invest Like The Pros

In the latest edition of our newsletter, The Income Investor, I offer my insights on how to grow this retirement must-have.

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Five Stocks For Your Income Portfolio

Most income stocks thrive when interest rates go down.

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25 years old!

2020 marks the start of the 25th year for this website and our IWB newsletter.

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Predictions past and future

What does 2020 hold for your finances?

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Revisiting a Christmas Carol

Spend some time during the holidays catching up on your donations.

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Boris wins by a landslide

Boris Johnson has a clear mandate to exit the EU on Jan. 31, as promised.

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Florida in the winter?

It comes with a big price tag!

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20/20 foresight

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