What a horrible start to the stock market for 2008!. People are talking about slow downs and the dreaded “R” word……RECESSION! I don’t know that much about the markets but it’s scary to think that fear from rumours are driving the market this much. It’s really true that the rich do get […]

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Here’s an interesting and useful story by CTV.ca. It proves that the rich do get richer and it also shows good quantitative goals to reach for regardless of your profession.
A Canadian with an annual income of $89,000 qualifies for membership in the exclusive club that includes the top 5 per cent of the nation’s […]

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So what if the Canadian dollar is at par with the American dollar? All I could hear and read this weekend were stories by local media about the strong Canadian dollar. Yes, that’s great news for shoppers but is it really worth the trek across the border for some savings? Line-ups […]

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The Canadian dollar scrambled above parity with the U.S. dollar for the first time in 31 years on Thursday, fired by sky-high commodity prices as well as a broadbased drop in the greenback, but it did not maintain that level for long.
Canadian bond prices fell with U.S. treasuries as U.S. weekly jobless claims and high […]

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What in the world is arbitrage? It’s one of those vocab terms that people haven’t heard of but everyone has done it at least once in their life. Many people do it repeatedly all the time. Again and again and again….
Any guesses?
No, it’s nothing indecent or forbidden but rather, it’s a business […]

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Flipping burgers at a fast food joint will make you around $16,000 a year in Canada.
Steve Nash is from Canada and he makes over $15 million US a year. Is his job a hundred times more important than the burger flipper? Some CEOs have made $160 million a year from their jobs so […]

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