Is the high (and rising) Canadian dollar taking devaluing your U.S. stocks? Yes it is… So how do you invest with the high Canadian dollar? Well first – don’t yank all your investments back home. Your portfolio could use the bulk purchases of cheap American equities and greenbacks right now.
Think about it – the Canadian [...]

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The worst year in a decade for IPO activity in Canada… That’s where “2007″ will be in the history books, unless we see a drastic change in the final three months remaining.
2001 had only 46 issues, but with a total value of $2.1-billion. The-year-to-date, 2007, had 63 IPOs with a combined value of only $1.2-billion. [...]

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By Robin Trehan, B.A, MIB, MBA electronic business
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day is a good statement and it is true that we do sometimes stumble on precious stone but the probability of it’s happening in business world is pretty dim. In this process business clock [...]

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Hilton Hotels Corp. [HLT-N] today reported that shareholders approved the company’s $20.1-billion (USD) sale to The Blackstone Group LP [BX-N].
Under the terms of the Hilton Hotels takeover/buyout, Blackstone will pay Hilton shareholders $47.50 per share in cash. Including assumed debt, the total deal is valued at $26-billion.
Shares of Hilton Hotels rose 14 cents to $46.12 [...]

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A group of big U.S. and Canadian institutional shareholders is mobilizing to push for the merger of TSX Group Inc. and Montreal Exchange Inc., a deal that the companies have been unable to consummate despite serious talks this summer.
The exchanges have publicly trod increasingly separate paths this year, signing up high-powered U.S. allies and [...]

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Microsoft RIM… doesn’t sound too bad, eh? Well, definitely doesn’t sound too bad for Research in Motion (RIM-T) shareholders, whose shares rose today on speculation that the Canadian-maker of the BlackBerry handheld device could be bought by Microsoft Corp (MSFT-Q).
Waterloo-based RIM’s shares rose $2.10, or 2.42 percent, to $88.90 in Toronto. Meanwhile in the U.S., [...]

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Say ‘Goodbye’ to your 2007 gains (if you haven’t already done so, on reading the title of this post). For those of you who seen your mutual fund gains vanish after the China scare earlier this year, and haven’t checked on them ever since, your funds are probably just the way you left them [...]

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So what is this credit crunch we keep hearing on the news, what does it mean, and why are investors panicking over it? Simply put, it’s when money becomes hard to borrow. There are few signs of a “credit crunch” in today’s economy – if your an individual with no means of support, sure [...]

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I’m sure the title’s got your attention – probably not used to seeing Tim Horton’s or Starbucks beside the word “losers”. For those of you don’t know Tim Horton’s, you’re definitely not Canadian. Tim Horton’s, rather “Tims” (as it is affectionately known in Canada), is Canada’s largest fast food chain. Now you’re probably [...]

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Shares of Lululemon Athletica Inc. spiked more than 50 percent on its first day of trading on Friday. The yoga-clothing retailer raised $327.6 million (much more than anticipated) in Canada’s largest initial public offering this year. The company’s stock closed at $29.72 on the TSX (”LLL”), and at $28 on the NASDAQ (”LULU”). The company [...]

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