CIBC World Markets analysts are bullish on Canada in 2014, following a year in which Canadian stocks lagged many of their developed world counterparts.Now find out Citigroup’s top 23 stocks in the U.S. marketWith stock market correlations down, 2014 is likely to reward the savvy investors who know how to pick stocks. Check them out“The valuation discount relative to the […]
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Barclays has unveiled its 140 top picks for equity investors in 2014, with 58 coming from the Americas but only six of them are listed on the TSX.Goldcorp Inc., Suncor Energy Inc., Enerplus Corp., Manulife Financial Corp., Canadian Tire Corp. Ltd. and Quebecor Inc. made the cut as Canadian favourites among the investment bank’s analysts.Goldcorp, which was listed along with […]
Sign up for the Executive Summary email briefing to get the news delivered straight to your inbox first thing in the morning.Markets: By the numbersTSX13,312.78 +32.06 +0.24%Dow Jones16,025.53 +5.33 +0.03%S&P 5001,808.37 +3.28 +0.18%Nasdaq4,068.75 +6.23 +0.15%Wow, did you see that? Good news for once begat good news on Friday, as investors took heart that employment reports in both Canada and the United States mean economic growth […]
Canadian stock investors are in store for “low-single-digit price returns” in 2014, says a new report from BMO Capital Markets.The muted returns will mark the fourth-straight year that Canadian stocks will underperform their U.S. counterparts, said chief investment strategist Brian Belski.“As the broader de-leveraging of emerging markets and Europe proceeds, coupled with slow grind of over-capacity of metals and commodities […]
Mark Daley, Daley is Associate Professor & SHARCNET Research Chair at Western UniversityBy Mark DaleyThe tools and methodologies of “Big Data” provide us with new – necessarily automated – ways to boil down vast quantities of data into a form that is easier to digest. Critical tools include algorithms for dimensionality reduction, machine learning and large-scale visualization.Beyond Big Data, many […]
Now that the U.S. government shutdown is behind us it is instructive to review what we went without for those weeks. Recently writing for the Financial Times, Robin Harding reported that experts feared that the U.S. government would be “flying blind” without access to the big data collected by the government, and which was imperiled by the shutdown.We would have been […]
If seeing is believing, then upstart Space-Time Insight could play a big role in the realization of a truly smart grid.The company develops geospatial “situational intelligence” solutions that promise to help utilities dramatically improve the accuracy of generation demand forecasts, and in a much smaller window of time. That’s important for a number of reasons — including the quest to […]
Foreign investors’ growing appetite for Canadian stock is great news for the S&P/TSX Composite Index given the high correlation between foreign investment and the performance of country’s most important benchmark, says Martin Roberge, Canaccord Genuity strategist.Statistics Canada on Monday released its figures the foreign investment in Canadian securities for September. Obviously,Statistics Canada fund flow data released on Monday shows foreigners […]
Sign up for the Executive Summary email briefing to get the news delivered straight to your inbox first thing in the morning.Markets: By the numbersMonday’s North American closeTSX13,358.39 -19.94 -0.15%Dow Jones15,783.10 +21.32 +0.14%S&P 5001,771.89 +1.28 +0.07%Nasdaq3,919.79 +0.56 +0.01%Decent jobs growth, encouraging words from central bank officials and healthy earnings numbers were enough to push North American stock markets strongly higher yet again last week.The question […]
