Telstra Corp Ltd (ASX: TLS, OTC: TTRAF, ADR: TLSYY), Australia’s biggest telecom, is on the verge of completing its AUD11 billion deal with the National Broadband Network.
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David Dittman is co-editor of Australian Edge, along with his longtime mentor Roger Conrad. David's valuable contributions on economic, regulatory and legislative changes help subscribers make informed decisions about investing in high-dividend-paying Australian and Canadian companies.
David authors the companion to Canadian Edge, Canadian Edge Weekly, which provides regular commentary on and analysis of macroeconomics, geopolitics, global trade, central banking, domestic politics and other issues related to investing in the Great White North. He has been associate editor of Canadian Edge as well as Utility Forecaster for seven years. He began his career at Investing Daily as deputy managing editor before serving as managing editor and then executive editor. David is co-author, along with Elliott H. Gue and Yiannis G. Mostrous, of The Rise of the State: Profitable Investing and Geopolitics in the 21st Century, which was published in August 2010 by FT Press. He also edited Mr. Gue and Mr. Mostrous’ previous book, The Silk Road to Riches: How You Can Profit by Investing in Asia’s Newfound Prosperity, which was published in 2006 by FT Press. David is a reformed lawyer with a juris doctor from Villanova University School of Law. He’s also a former stockbroker who worked the fixed-income desk for a two-man team managing more than $100 million in assets. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego, where his interest in the changing nature of the global economy was shaped during courses with the esteemed Asia scholar Chalmers Johnson, and on periodic visits across the border to Tijuana. In addition to meeting Roger Conrad, the most important event in David’s investing career was reading Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor. He uses Graham and Dodd’s Security Analysis mainly for reference purposes now but used to try to read it straight through. |
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The Financial Stability Board, which is headed by Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, is the latest institution to note the Great White North’s prudence in the aftermath of the Great Recession.
Australia’s Big Four banks are under scrutiny for their exposure to Europe and wholesale funding markets. These concerns are legitimate and overblown.
Keystone XL–formally the Keystone Gulf Coast Expansion Project–was rejected this week. But it’s on track to come on line in late 2014.
The HSBC Financial Clog Index provides a quick, clean look at the level of stress in the system.
All things considered–and this, too, is a relative game–there’s little reason for investors to fear Australian politicians.
There are good reasons Canada is widely recognized for its general stability. A lot of them have to do with the competition, but its leaders are basically competent as well.
APA Group (ASX: APA, OTC: APAJF) dominates Australia’s pipeline industry. But a potential natural gas boom could pave the way for more players and more competition.
The Canada Revenue Agency has extended until Jan. 1, 2013, the effective date of new rules requiring verification of eligibility for lower dividend withholding rates.
Vermilion Energy Inc (TSX: VET, OTC: VEMTF) announced an acquisition, changed its 2012 CAPEX budget and issued an advisory to its foreign shareholders.
