Dividend payments can be used to save for retirement, replace a portion of your income, or smooth out significant market losses. Regardless of your goals, all dividend investors want the same thing: the assurance that the company they invest in will not significantly reduce or discontinue its dividend payments. Let's take a look at two companies you can count on as far as secure dividends are conc...Read More
Finding a stock on the TSX index that combines growth, dividends, and a strong track record can be like hunting for a needle in a haystack. While some of the biggest Canadian stocks manage exactly this feat, and get plenty of airtime for doing so, are the following potentially overlooked dividend-payers worth adding to a passive income portfolio?Rogers Communications (TSX:RCI.B)(NYSE:RCI)One of th...Read More
Gold stocks have to do more to confirm they are in a new bull market.Sure, they've surged above key moving average resistance and breadth has improved.However, the gold stocks have not yet broken the pattern of lower highs and breadth, while improved, is not at bull market levels yet. Let's review where things currently stand.In recent weeks GDX and GDXJ surged above the critical 400-day moving av...Read More
The retail sales report for December - delayed because of the Government shut-down - was released this morning. It showed the largest monthly drop since September 2009. Online sales plunged 3.9%, the steepest drop since November 2008. Not surprisingly, sporting goods/hobby/musical instruments/books plunged 4.9%. This is evidence that the average household has been forced to cut back discretionary...Read More
Speaking at the first WA Mining Club lunch this year, panel member and PCF Capital Group managing director Liam Twigger also said two North American trends that could impact miners were the buzz surrounding cannabis stocks and the growing prominence of streaming companies providing project financing. The panel, including Deloitte partner Nicki Ivory, Hartleys chairman Ian Parker and Doray Min...Read More
It recovered the rare-shaped stone, which experts estimated to be over 300 million years old, on January 23 at the Udachnaya kimberlite pipe in Yakutia.Alrosa managing board member and director of the United Selling Organisation Evgeny Agureev said diamonds that resemble objects or symbols were "extremely rare in nature", with most either octahedron-shaped or without any particular shape."The appe...Read More
The gap is a cyclical event which sees a lag between the improvement in commodity prices which lifts miners, and a slower reaction by service providers, with gold the best current example of the valueRead More
Pacton Gold's Australian land holdings. Source Pacton Gold Inc.Pacton Gold Inc. [PAC-TSXV; PACXF-OTC] said Thursday February 14 it has struck a deal to purchase additional mineral claims in the Red Lake District of northwestern Ontario. The property consists of 17 mineral claims, and will increase the company's land position to approximately 15,000 hectares.Under an agreement, Pacton can purchase...Read More
The Rainy River gold mine in northwestern Ontario. Source: New Gold Inc.New Gold Inc. [NGD-TSX, NYSE American] shares fell in active trading Thursday February 14 after the company released production forecasts for 2019 as well as financial results for the fourth quarter of 2018. They included a loss of $1.07 billion from continuing operations in 2018.The forecast for 2019 includes high all-in sust...Read More
Atico said it had been unable to reach a new two-year collective agreement at the copper-gold operation in Colombia.Read More
I love a good bargain.Especially when it comes to investing.In fact, some of my biggest winners have come from uncovering stocks that, at one time, were trading at huge discounts.Take OrganiGram Holdings (TSX-V: OGI), for instance.Back in 2016, I told members of my Green Chip Stocks community to buy shares of OGI when it was trading at just $0.40. It was a screaming bargain, and I practically begg...Read More
By: Dave KranzlerThe retail sales report for December - delayed because of the Government shut-down - was released this morning. It showed the largest monthly drop since September 2009. Online sales plunged 3.9%, the steepest drop since November 2008. Not surprisingly, sporting goods/hobby/musical instruments/books plunged 4.9%. This is evidence that the average household has been forced to cut...Read More
Since the invention of banking, the global financial system has become increasingly centralized. In the modern system, central banks now control everything from interest rates to the issuance of currency, while government regulators, corporations, and intergovernmental organizations wield unparalleled influence at the top of this crucial food chain. There is no doubt that this centralization...Read More
By: Richard (Rick) Mills, Ahead of the herd What were you doing on August 1, 2018? Likely it was just like any other day, with your thoughts on work, your spouse, your kids, money, what to make for dinner, etc. What you should have been thinking about though, was the Earth. August 1 was Earth Overshoot Day. What does that mean? Well, Earth Overshoot Day is the day of the year when humanity h...Read More
Stocks had trouble staying aloft Tuesday after rocketing higher a day earlier. Although the Dow finished with a 117-point gain, it was up by more than 200 in the early going and probably would have finished in the red if sellers had been less timid. There were other signs of heavy distribution. For one, AAPL's sly handlers opened the stock on the high of the day, trapping bulls before pulling th...Read More
Question: Plunger you keep insisting that we are in a bear market. Really? The averages have done nothing but go straight up since December 24th. At this rate we will be at new highs within a month. I thought prices go down in a bear market! That's not happening.Answer: The most reliable method of forecasting the eventual outcome of the market over the past 118 years has been Dow's Theo...Read More
Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several books pertaining to finance, global economics, and equity trading; His most recent book is titled Ultimate Guide To Money and The Markets (free ebook). Gregory currently hosts a b...Read More
Grant's Interest Rate Observer Founder and Editor Jim Grant and CNBC's Rick Santelli discuss the bond market in Europe.James "Jim" Grant is an American writer and publisher and the founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthly journal of the financial markets. He is the author , most recently, of The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself. Grant's television appearanc...Read More
Stocks provide a return to today's investors via two mechanisms: dividends and capital gains.Dividends provide and income stream which can be qualitatively values. Capital gains result from speculation - an expectation that future dividends will be higher than the market currently expects.But what's the value of a company that continuously pays no dividends and does not appear as if it ever will i...Read More
"So the precedent that the president is setting here is something that should be met with great unease and dismay by the Republicans."Continue...Read More