Author name: Shawn

Shaw Communications reported earnings before the open today. The market was not excited by the earnings and the shares were down 1.4%. To me, the earnings looked pretty good. There was a loss of 23,000 basic cable customers or 1.0%. But I figure that...

Markets overall were down a little today. However, our stock picks did well.
In particular Toll Brothers was up 2%. My Bank of America (talked about in these daily comments previously, but not rated) was up 3.6%. and Couche-Tard was up 2%. I did not ...

I may trim a few positions...
It was a good day in the markets, Toll brothers was up 4.4%. Bank of America which I hold and have discussed but which is not in the list above was up 5.7%. Here in Canada, Boston Pizza which I bought for yield and not g...

It was not a bad day in the markets as U.S. bank stocks rose. We are now into earnings season. Alcoa reported after the close and its results were apparently better than expected.
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I am taking a look at Dollarama right now. Perhaps I am two years too late, I should have looked at it earlier. As always it is going to take a lot of analysis and work before I add it to the site here. If nothing else it will help me in my understan...

Our comprehensive reference article on Canadian Exchange Traded Funds is updated. This article contains current P/E ratios and dividends yields for a broad selection of ETFs. It also includes Gold, Silver, Oil and Natural Gas ETFs. Most of you may pr...

Markets did not do much today. But some of our stock picks did quite well.
Wells Fargo was up 1.6% and Toll Brothers was up 2.1%. A stock that I hold but don't have a rating on, Bank of America was up a hefty 8.6%. My investment in bank of America wa...

Of interest today, Toll Brothers up 2.9%. So hopefully that bodes well for the U.S. home building industry.
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Markets got off to a very strong start for 2012.
Most everything was up.
I sold what amounted to 9% of my Wells Fargo. I had continued to add to Wells Fargo at lower prices this past Fall. So I sold some today at $28.40. I also placed an order to sel...

The composition of my own portfolio has been updated. It includes mainly Strong Buys and (higher) Buys from the list above but also one two that are Buy rated. My portfolio is by almost any standard over concentrated in a few stocks and I may work to...

Walgreen Company inc., the largest U.S. drugstore chain is updated and rated (higher) Buy at $33.06. It's price has dropped to quite an attractive level due to the loss of about 5% of its customers who are covered bor drugs through a drug plan manage...