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| TIP SHEET / SALES PROS BULLISH ON MANULIFE
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Boyd Erman
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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Shares of Manulife Financial Corp. are starting to look like a good idea to a lot of sales desks, which are pounding the table on the stock even though analysts are mostly avoiding ''buy'' calls.
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| In telecom, a new battle for Quebec
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IAIN MARLOW
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Saturday, August 28, 2010
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Pierre Karl Peladeau sits beneath a bronze bust of his father as the skyline of Old Montreal gleams outside the towering windows of his enormous corner office.It's a regal setting that befits the king of Quebec's French-language media. As chief executive officer of Quebecor Inc., founded by his late father Pierre, Mr. Peladeau reigns over an empire that includes the continent's largest French-language broadcaster, as well as Videotron Ltee, the dominant force in Quebec's cable television and broadband Internet markets and a major player in its home phone sector.
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| Brookfield Properties 'in the penalty box'
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STEVE LADURANTAYE
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Wednesday, August 04, 2010
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REAL ESTATE REPORTERAs Brookfield Properties Corp. works feverishly to restructure and expand its operations around the world, investors and analysts are working overtime trying to figure out the repercussions of the company's ambitious plans on its share price.
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| Historic strike nears end with Vale deal
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ANDY HOFFMAN AND JOSH WINGROVE
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Monday, July 05, 2010
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One of the longest and most acrimonious labour disputes in Canadian history may finally come to an end after the union representing former Inco nickel miners in Sudbury struck a tentative deal with the company's Brazilian owner.
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| In deep water drilling, a delicate dance
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Shawn McCarthy and Paul Waldie
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Saturday, June 26, 2010
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When the Ocean Ranger drilling platform sank in a raging Valentine's Day storm off the coast of Newfoundland in 1982, it claimed 84 lives and scarred a generation of Newfoundlanders, including a young sea captain named Mark Turner who helped in the futile search for survivors.
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| Brendan Wood changes 'Top Gun' survey
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ANDREW WILLIS
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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awillis@globeandmail.comCorporate Canada and the institutional investor crowd have very different views of what makes a good analyst, according to the latest research rankings out of Brendan Wood International.
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| The integrity and ethics of investing
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STEVE LADURANTAYE
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Wednesday, June 09, 2010
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Every year the CFA Institute asks its charter members - the giant brains of the investment community - to weigh in on the ethical state of the financial system. Throughout, they expressed growing optimism on regulations in Canada and the ethics of those working in finance.
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| CELEBRATING OUR OWN
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Christina Varga, Cathryn Atkinson, Terrence Belford, Philip Fine, Marjo Johne, Becky Rynor, Michael Ryval, Rosanna Tamburri and Kira Vermond
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Monday, June 07, 2010
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It's been 15 years since Doug Caldwell founded the Top 40 Under 40 awards, and the country is just learning to celebrate its own, says Ron Charles, partner in Caldwell Partners International, which runs the project.
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| Telecom's top brass lock horns at CRTC hearings
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IAIN MARLOW
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Friday, June 04, 2010
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TELECOM REPORTERHearings at the CRTC this week have been at times bizarre, hilarious, incredibly tense and hugely symbolic.At issue is whether large telecom providers, such as BCE Inc.'s Bell Canada and Rogers Communications Inc., will share newer, more advanced networks with small resellers who already lease space on existing networks.
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| Profitable GM curbs stock sale speculation
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GREG KEENAN AND ANDREW WILLIS
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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The Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection worked. Now the question is whether General Motors Co. will pay back all the money North American taxpayers provided to keep it afloat.Buoyed by a slow recovery in North American demand and results from emerging markets such as China, the auto maker reported its first quarterly profit since 2007, marking a milestone in the auto industry's tepid recovery.
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| THE NEW CRUDE FRONTIER
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SHAWN McCARTHY
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Monday, May 10, 2010
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GLOBAL ENERGY REPORTERAs energy sources decline elsewhere, oil firms are turning to the vast potential of Africa. But they must be wary of the ''resource curse' that enriches elites while offering little to local populations
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| The human element, classified
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AVNER MANDELMAN
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Saturday, April 24, 2010
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Avner Mandelman is a director of Venator Capital Management and author of The Sleuth Investor. amandelman@venator.ca Warren Buffett said he prefers terrific businesses that even mediocre managers can run. But, since not all businesses are terrific, shouldn't you require better than mediocrity in management? So perhaps besides businesses analysis, you should also do manager analysis.
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| Goldman Sachs under the gun
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BOYD ERMAN
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
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CAPITAL MARKETS REPORTERThe filing of civil fraud charges against Goldman Sachs Group Inc. will cast a long pall over major banks that dealt in subprime-backed securities, as the U.S. regulator works to repair its image in the wake of the Madoff scandal.
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| Time for Corporate Canada to go shopping abroad
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KEN SMITH
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Friday, April 02, 2010
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Ken Smith is a senior partner with Secor Group, based in TorontoThe financial crisis put a lid on international MandAs, but the drivers of global industry restructuring have continued to bubble underneath and may soon blow the cover off again. Along with pent-up financing capacity, analysts point to opportunities for strategic combinations, as well as some settling of the uncertainty in valuations that made even ready buyers cautious.
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| Online brokerage muscles in on the road show
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BOYD ERMAN
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Monday, March 29, 2010
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CAPITAL MARKETS REPORTERFor capitalism to work, companies need to meet investors, and investors need to meet companies. But like singles in the big city, they don't always know how to find prospective matches.
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| We'll Think No More of Inco
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JOHN GRAY
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Friday, March 26, 2010
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Down the road from the Copper Cliff smelter, where the Inco Superstack reaches 380 metres into a clear winter sky, striking Steelworkers stamp their heavy boots and feed a smoking fire pit with scrap wood. Massive ore trucks, engines growling, wait for permission to drive through the picket line. It is a familiar ritual; after 10 or 15 minutes, the picket captain signals the drivers to proceed and go about their business at the smelter-their business being strikebreaking.
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| Above and beyond
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Andrew Bell
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Friday, March 26, 2010
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I buy at the point of maximum pessimism, where there's a big disconnect between share price and the long-term prospects of the company.I want to see that problems are well-known to the Street. I want to see the sell side being negative. If there are 10 sell-side guys following it, I want to see eight sell recommendations.
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| The Oscar for best corporate drama goes to ...
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IAIN MARLOW
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Monday, March 08, 2010
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TELECOM REPORTERYesterday afternoon, there were roughly 3.1 million Oscar parties in jeopardy and Michelle Lemieux's happened to be one of them.With time ticking down to the Academy Awards last night, households in parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were held captive by last-minute corporate gamesmanship between the region's main cable provider and Walt Disney Co., which was threatening to black out the Oscars.
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| What's grandma allergic to?
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GRANT BUCKLER
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Friday, March 05, 2010
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As Canada moves toward converting medical records into electronic form, private companies are taking what many see as the next step - putting health information into patients' hands.Web-based services being launched by the likes of Google and Microsoft promise to help patients track treatments, medications and appointments. They could also help to manage chronic diseases.
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| A watchful eye on emerging fortunes
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JOHN HEINZL
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Friday, February 26, 2010
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INVESTMENT REPORTERWhen Derek Moran gets a call from someone who needs help investing a large chunk of money, he doesn't send them to a traditional investment adviser or mutual fund salesperson. Instead, the Kelowna, B.C., financial planner always recommends a private investment counsel firm.
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| Amazon slides after iPad launch
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SIMON AVERY
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
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INVESTMENT REPORTERShares of Amazon.com Inc. have sunk 6 per cent since Apple Inc. unveiled its iPad device, complete with electronic book reader, last week. But the world's biggest e-commerce player may not really be any worse off today than a week ago.
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| The turning point
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Gordon Pitts
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Friday, January 29, 2010
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Peter Brown 68, founder and chairman of Canaccord Financial Inc., of VancouverIn Canada, there is what I call brutal bank dominance of the market. What the 1987 Big Bang did for Canaccord was to scare the hell out of a lot of the independent investment dealers. We were fortunate enough to buy eight of them so we could be big enough to stand the gaff. So when Ottawa allowed the walls to break down, we took over a bunch of dealers who felt they would be unable to compete. And the mergers didn't depersonalize our own brokerage business. After all, I am not a bank-I care about people.
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| Correction may loom for emerging markets
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SKOT KORTJE
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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Skot Kortje has been analyzing stock market trends for 15-years using trend analysis. His Stock Trends indicators have been published by The Globe and Mail since 1995. For more go to Stocktrends.ca
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| Meet Apple's sole skeptic
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DAVID MILSTEAD
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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Per Lindberg is lonely.Not literally - he has friends and family. It's just that he is the only sell-side analyst covering Apple Inc., out of roughly 40, who has a ''sell'' rating on the company.
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