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If stock markets around the world had fallen by more than 50% from their peak, investors would have been in quite a tizzy with the panic of collapse and catastrophe running rampant. But it is not stocks that are in a nasty bear market, it is commodities. They are far...

Across the investment landscape there are countless philosophies, gauges and indicators that have attempted to elicit exploitable intelligence and generate superior performance. The last century has seen new paradigms, recycled theories and just plain hokum put forward as the answer to every investor's dreams. In the end, solid fundamental and...

The global financial markets are intertwined into one gigantic and convoluted web. Nowhere is this truer than with the relationship between currencies and bond spreads, which are the difference between various country's interest rates. Bond yield differentials play a significant role in determining the direction of a currency and has...

The past four years have not been kind to Canadian stocks when compared to U.S. stocks and adjusted for exchange rates. The average annual total return for the S&P/TSX Composite index for the four years ending December 31, 2014 was 5.5% versus 20.9% for the S&P 500 (all returns in...