Tips and tricks for using ETFs
If you're thinking of using exchange-traded funds in your portfolio, there are thousands to choose from in North America. How do you go about figuring out which ones to buy? What are the pitfalls you should be worrying about? How do they compare with mutual funds?Oliver McMahon, director of product management at iShares Canada, took your questions in a live discussion.Just click on the live blog box below to replay the discussion. If you're seeing this on a smartphone, you might prefer...
Minggu, 26 Juni 2011
Load up on gold ETFs In May
Load up on gold ETFs In May
Gold equities and related exchange traded funds listed on the TMX finally came alive this week after significantly underperforming the TSX composite index since the beginning of March. They are showing early technical signs of recovering from oversold levels (albeit they are in the red today amid the weakness in the broader market).
Canadian investors can choose between five ETFs when interested...
Minggu, 26 Juni 2011
Lloyds strategic review puts jobs at risk
Lloyds strategic review puts jobs at risk
New chief executive António Horta-Osório expected to unveil major cost-cutting drive this week
Up to 15,000 jobs face the axe at Lloyds Banking Group this week when new chief executive António Horta-Osório unveils plans to cut costs in an attempt to return the bailed-out bank to long-term financial health.Presenting the outcome of his three-month strategy review on Thursday, the Portuguese-born banker will also signal his ambition to start paying dividends...
Minggu, 26 Juni 2011
Rachel Weisz Marries Daniel Craig
Rachel Weisz Marries Daniel CraigDaniel Craig and Rachel Weisz, who star as a married couple in a forthcoming film, have tied the knot in a secret wedding ceremony in New York.James Bond star Craig was reported to have "top-secretly married" Weisz at a low-key ceremony with just four people present on Wednesday.Slate PR, which represents Craig, confirmed the pair had married with only Craig's teenage daughter, Ella; Weisz's five-year-old son Henry and two family friends as guests.The company did not offer...
Minggu, 26 Juni 2011
Lyme disease isn’t only tick-borne disease
Lyme disease isn’t only tick-borne disease
Lyme disease isn’t the only reason to be on the lookout for ticks anymore. Babesiosis, a relatively new and possibly fatal infection is sweeping the northeast. Although only six cases were reported in 2001 in the Lower Hudson Valley, 2008 brought 119 cases of the tick-borne illness to the area ABC reports, illustrating the speed of the disease’s spread.Unlike Lyme disease, the illness’s malaria-like symptoms frequently go unnoticed and when they are experienced,...
Minggu, 26 Juni 2011
Lyme Disease Skyrockets
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Lyme Disease Skyrockets
Cases of Lyme Disease have tripled between 1992 at 10,000 cases nationally to almost 40,000 in 2009.95% of Lyme Disease cases occur in 12 states: Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, Maine, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. To complicate matters, as infection rates rise, a second, similar infection has been cropping up where Lyme Disease first became prominent- called Babesiosis. Babesiosis...
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