Posted on Thursday, 2nd June 2011 by James Martin
This is Jeff Rose from Good Financial Cents with another good financial tip for you. Just the other day I had a client ask me, the client is currently involved in the 401K with their employer, and the employer has been slowly and steadily reducing their employer match. Finally, just recently they took away the [...]
Tags: 401k, Financial Tip, Good Financial, Good Financial Tip
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Posted on Monday, 30th May 2011 by James Martin
Posted on Friday, 27th May 2011 by James Martin
The traditional Norbert Gambit takes advantage of inter-listed Canadian stocks (RIM on the TSX and RIMM on NASDAQ, for example) but many investors find that discount brokers sometimes balk at journaling shares to the US account and selling shares right away. This would mean a wait of three trading days for the initial trade to [...]
Tags: Canadian, Canadian Dollars
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Posted on Tuesday, 24th May 2011 by James Martin
Shares of fast food restaurant chain Jack in the Box (JACK: Charts, News, Offers) surged on Thursday trading despite mixed second quarter earnings. The company’s earnings fell 62% to $6.8 million, or 13 cents per share, from $17.7 million, or 32 cents, a year earlier. Its revenue slid 4.6% to $505.1 million. Analysts had expected [...]
Tags: Earnings
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Posted on Wednesday, 18th May 2011 by James Martin
There are many reasons to expect the current cyclical bull market in stocks to give way to the next vicious bear. Let me give you my top six. First of all … The Market Is Way Overvalued As I’ve written before, all traditional fundamental valuation measures like price/earnings ratios, dividend yields and Tobin’s Q ratio [...]
Tags: Overvalued, Sp Overvalued
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Posted on Friday, 13th May 2011 by James Martin
I’ve been railing against the Federal Reserve’s reckless monetary policies for a while now. QE2 and ultra-low interest rates are fostering new asset bubbles, distorting the markets, driving the price of commodities higher, and sending the dollar into the drink. At the same time, they’re doing little to revive the very markets that they’re supposed [...]
Posted on Friday, 13th May 2011 by James Martin
In the following interview, Warren Buffett talks about the David Sokol affair, the economy and why Berkshire isnt paying a dividend. If you cant view the video, click here. Watch the full episode. See more Nightly Business Report. Hat tip to Canadian Financial Stuff for the video above. In a chat with Smart Money magazine, [...]
Tags: Buffett, Buffett Ariely
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Posted on Tuesday, 10th May 2011 by James Martin
In his weekend column, Rob Carrick pointed out that TD Waterhouse now allows clients with a self-directed RRSP account to automatically wash the sale of US-listed stocks or ETFs into the TD US$ Money Market Fund (TDB166). Earlier if clients wanted to sweep the proceeds of a US-listed stock sale into TDB166 or sell TDB166 [...]
Tags: Td Waterhouse, Waterhouse
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Posted on Sunday, 8th May 2011 by James Martin
America’s Financial Armageddon is rushing towards us like a runaway freight train, and this coming Wednesday we will explain exactly how and when in an emergency briefing with that exact title. (Beware: You have only two days left to claim your free registration.) Meanwhile, time is running out for Washington as well, with Congress careening [...]
Tags: America’s Financial, America’s Financial Armageddon, Armageddon, Financial Armageddon
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Posted on Wednesday, 4th May 2011 by James Martin
It costs a lot of money to put a child through University these days and Registered Education Savings Plans offer one of the best ways to save for a childs education. In todays post, Mike Holman, the blogger behind the Money Smarts Blog and author of The RESP Book (available on Amazon) explains the basics [...]