BP’s (NYSE: BP) ill spill in the Gulf of Mexico spells opportunity for companies operating in Canada’s oil sands. Here’s how to play it. Read More

It's beyond argument now that high-yielding Canadian income trusts will comprise an entirely new class of high-yielding Canadian dividend-payers well after 2010 passes into 2011. Read More

Transportation is a key element at all stages of the production-consumption cycle. Here's how to play a sector that also provides essential insights into the underlying health of the economy. Read More

All the oil and gas companies tracked in How They Rate have now reported reserve data for 2009 as well as full-year and fourth-quarter 2009 earnings. We have a pretty good assessment of where each stands as a business in this volatile environment. Read More

Trust conversions have not just been relatively benign for investors. A growing number are actually generating windfall gains. Read More

In less than a decade, China has increased its share of global consumption of metals to 25 percent from 10 percent. That’s two-thirds of the growth in the globe’s base metals consumption and half the demand growth for steel, copper and aluminum. Read More

All of the oil and gas producer trusts I track have one thing in common: They’ve survived some of the toughest conditions ever faced by any industry and have come out the other side in working condition. Read More

One group of companies looks ready to profit regardless of how the details on the Democrats’ plans to overhaul the US health care system shake out: Canadian providers of health care products and services. Read More

Canada offers two compelling opportunities for a windfall. And best of all, the primary targets are income trusts paying big dividends backed by strong businesses, investments even the most conservative can buy and hold comfortably. Read More

The US is no longer the only market for Canadian exports, the only source of new products or the sole font of new investment. Rather, its share of all three has been steadily shrinking due to even faster growth in Canada’s trade and investment with other nations. Read More