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The merciless arithmetic of investing in commodity producers is imposing itself on many a portfolio: Copper down a few percentage points; copper stocks cut in half. It’s nice when the swing works in your favour; when it’s conspiring against your wealth, it’s an agony not even the Marquis de Sade could dream up. The bad [...]

  Canada’s benchmark stock index was showing moderate gains at midday Wednesday as continued gains in the price of oil offset a drop in the price of gold. The S&P/TSX composite index was ahead by 19 points, or 0.14 per cent, to 13,352, with the financials and energy sectors leading the advance. The price of [...]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Fear is running high in the bond market. Treasury prices began the week sharply higher, sending the benchmark 10-year yield below 3% for the first time since June 27. “Being under 3% means a fear trade — we need to get back to at least 3% to have more confidence,” said [...]

Stock Market: Stock buybacks: That’s what most companies do when they buy their own shares. But how you can avoid the trap. FORTUNE — In 2006 and 2007 timber giant Weyerhaeuser (WY) conducted one of the biggest share buybacks in its history. It unleashed $800 million to purchase its shares, which were dancing near an [...]

Toronto Stock Market Crash 2008 The Toronto Stock Exchange and the Dow Jones continued their decline on Tuesday, posting triple-digit losses after the closing bell rang. Talk of interest rate cuts intensified as the losses piled up. Despite an early morning upswing of 250 points, the S&P/TSX composite index finished at a loss of 400.88 [...]

Stock Market Investment Strategy Investing in stocks doesn’t have to just for the market savvy. Anyone with a self directed IRA, or even just funds to open an investment account can invest in the stock market. Don’t know anything about stocks you say? Well, there is a solution for those that either don’t have the [...]

The following is President Bush’s statement Saturday on the financial crisis, as released by the White House. He spoke in the Rose Garden after meeting with financial ministers from the G-7 nations: Thank you all very much. Good morning. [Treasury] Secretary [Henry] Paulson, Secretary [of State Condoleezza] Rice and I just had a productive discussion [...]

Smaller businesses are now starting to feel the effects of the financial crisis IN these tough times Philip Fairey is getting used to hearing about his clients “doing a runner”. But a few days ago was the first time he caught one of them in the act. “We got this message from someone who had [...]

TORONTO (Reuters) – The main index of the Toronto Stock Exchange plunged almost 5 percent on Thursday as mounting gloom over the state of the economy and the U.S. financial sector sent investors fleeing the market in a broad rout. The financial sector was the biggest drag on the benchmark, sliding 7.74 percent. The energy [...]