This month's High Yielders are Penn West Energy Trust and TransForce Income Fund. Read More

Canadian trusts are making headway, battling back from last November's lows. There are still a few shaky trusts to weed out, but most are climbing steadily, poised for big gains.  Read More

The Canadian dollar is trading at all-time highs against the US dollar, boosting the volume of capital investment. Demand for resources--the most important part of Canada's economy--is also on the rise. Read More

We're in. The drama has just begun, and Alibaba.com (Hong Kong: 1688 HK) is now public. The company’s initial public offering (IPO) took place yesterday. Read More

Although the price of crude continues to rise, other sectors in the energy patch haven't necessarily fared as well. But the outlook is positive for coal miners as we gear up for more normal winter temperatures this year, and international drilling is still going strong. Read More

A bolo-tie wearing agronomist, he’s made a national name in the US touting a synthetic fuel process developed in the 1920s by Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. Now Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer has invited Alberta’s energy producers to his state. Read More

This is what I love about Asia; the opportunities can be very exciting in such dynamic developing markets. Earlier this week, a colleague asked me to give him a momentum stock to play in China. Read More

Let’s start with the bad news. Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach has spoken, and it’s official: Royalty levies are going up for most producers of oil and natural gas in Alberta. Read More

It’s taken the Philippines 10 years to get its economy on the right track. Now, though, its public finances are improving rapidly, foreign direct investment is rising, the Philippine peso is strong, and the Philippine diaspora dutifully contributes almost 10 percent of the country’s GDP. Read More

Natural gas prices in the US remain well off their 2005 post-hurricane highs. And gas drilling activity in North America has remained subdued because of weak prices, rising drilling costs and bloated inventories of gas in storage. But this short-term reality obscures the long-term growth to come from the gas market. Read More