The view from up top is impressive. On the ground, the best path to play one of the world’s most resilient economies runs through an evolving income trust universe.
What we’ve learned is that an effective regulatory structure on top of deposit-focused banking, the good fortune of abundant resources, and a decade of balanced federal books puts a country in good position to outperform during this unfolding recovery.
In fall 1910 six men set forth from New Jersey, bound for Georgia on what turned out to be arguably the most bountiful “hunting trip” in the history of mankind.
Two thousand ten is shaping up to be a big year for Canada. Three global events will take place in the Great White North in the first half of the year, each significant in its own right. Viewed together they highlight Canada’s potential on the world stage.
Statistics Canada reported last week that the country’s index of leading economic indicators rose 1.3 percent in November, almost two times as fast as analysts anticipated. Nine of the index’s 10 components rose and one was unchanged, the broadest increase in more than two years.
The progenitor of Personal Finance was founded nearly 40 years ago on the principle that there can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
Rising exports to the US accounted for three-quarters of the increase despite the relative strength of the loonie versus the greenback.
The Bank of Canada maintained its conditional commitment to keep its benchmark interest rate steady through the first half of 2010.
The Finance Ministry’s guidelines facilitate the conversion of SIFTs into corporations via one of two methods that are both tax-free for Canadian tax purposes and are most likely tax-free for US tax purposes as well.
Three How They Rate entries announced distribution cuts last month. At the root of all three was the economic weakness in North America that continues to hammer sales, cash flow and distributions.
