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Knowledge is Power: Stock Buybacks, Canadian Banks, Frontier Markets Edition

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Eurozone unemployment hits 11.9%  (BBC) The Rich 100: Canada’s wealthiest people (Canadian Business) In-App Buying: Don’t Let Your Kids Make Apple Rich (Bloomberg) Exploring the next frontier: A review of frontier equity markets (Vanguard) Does Supporting Passenger Railways Reduce Road Traffic Externalities? (Vox) Canadian banks’ last hurrah? Payouts to shrink as economy sputters (Financial Post) How the world wide …

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Are Mid-Caps Better Than Small and Large-Caps?

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Mid-cap stocks have outperformed small and large-caps since 2008 and even from 1993. This is interesting since some think small caps would outperform the other two types. Mid-caps can defined as stocks from market capitalization of $1.0 billion or more.Some consider companies with market capitalizations of $3.0 billion or more as mid-caps. There is no one …

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Correlation Between Tax Rates And Stock Returns

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Effective January 1st of this year the rates on many different types of taxes increased as part of the fiscal cliff deal. However the most of these increases affect only high earners. The majority of the working population are not impacted by most these increases especially taxes related to investments such as capital gains and …

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10 NYSE-Listed Auto Parts Makers

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The auto components industry is a multi-billion dollar industry worldwide. The U.S. is home to the largest auto parts industry in the world since the country has the highest number of autos anywhere. Hence investing in this auto parts makers can be a winning strategy. According to one research report, the U.S. auto parts industry …

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