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Byline: JAMES GRIFFITHS; Staff HONG KONG -- As tens of millions of Chinese head home this week ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, the mood is good. According to [...]

Byline: SCOTT BARLOW; Staff Scotiabank's research team is arguing that Canadian consumers are far more resilient than the consensus believes, and this sets up a significant number of promising TSX [...]

Byline: NORMAN ROTHERY PhD, CFA, founder of StingyInvestor.com The stock market spawns a plethora of stock-picking strategies, but a simple one has been producing gains for 86 years. The idea [...]

Byline: GEORGE ATHANASSAKOS Professor of finance and holds the Ben Graham Chair in Value Investing at the Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario Stock markets, on average, exhibit considerable [...]

Workers are dumping their stock, companies are cutting costs, and layoffs abound as troubling economic forces hit tech start-ups. Start-up workers came into 2022 expecting another year of cash-gushing initial [...]

Byline: DIANNE MALEY; Special to The Globe and Mail A health scare last year got Andrew thinking about stepping aside from his high-pressure executive job and taking early retirement. He's [...]

Byline: ETHAN LOU His latest book is Once a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West Advocates have long hailed bitcoin as an inflation hedge and safe-haven [...]

Byline: IAN McGUGAN, Staff Lead INSIDE THE MARKET Buy low, sell high. That's what they tell you when you are starting out as a wet-behindthe-ears investor, and it has been [...]

Byline: Jessica Menton, USA TODAY If you have the cash to invest, should you dump all of it into the stock market at once, or spread it out over time? [...]

Byline: Jessica Menton, USA TODAY Many Americans - led by Generation Z investors - have taken on debt to invest in the pandemic stock market boom after young investors were [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK, Staff Lead There's a quick - and newly cheap - way to get into bank stocks in advance of the dividend hikes to come. Shares of the [...]

Byline: JOHN HEINZL, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead INVESTOR CLINIC I have been a DIY investor for the past few years and have developed strategies to build the [...]

Byline: DAVID MILSTEAD, Staff Lead Stelco Holdings Inc. will return to Canada's primary stock index nearly two decades after its predecessor company was delisted, joined by one of Canada's hottest [...]

Byline: JOHN HEINZL, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead INVESTOR CLINIC I am a retiree who manages my own stock portfolio. I need to be a bit aggressive because [...]

Byline: MATT LUNDY, Staff Lead Canadian households are seeing their wealth rise at a record-setting pace, bolstered by torrid activity in residential real estate and continuing gains in the stock [...]

Byline: JOHN HEINZL Lead INVESTOR CLINIC With the Canadian government spending hundreds of billions of dollars to fight the pandemic, are you concerned about possible hyperinflation in Canada and what [...]

Byline: Russ Wiles, Columnist, USA TODAY The stock market began to surge about a year ago, as government stimulus money and other assistance poured in. Over that time, an interesting [...]

Byline: Brett Molina and Mike Snider, USA TODAY The first thing you spot on the home page of subreddit r/WallStreetBets is a banner featuring a cartoon character in a suit [...]

Byline: IAN McGUGAN, Staff Lead INSIDE THE MARKET Every stock market frenzy has a simple, apparently reasonable story at its core. Today's bull market is no different. The story du [...]

Byline: EMILY HALVERSON-DUNCAN Lead NUMBER CRUNCHER CFA, director, CPMS sales at Morningstar Research Inc. WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? Canadian momentum stocks that protect on the downside. THE SCREEN Momentum [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK, Staff Lead INSIDE THE MARKET I'm thinking of starting a support group for investors who bought preferred shares and had a bad outcome. Preferred shares figure a [...]

Byline: TERRY CAIN; Special to The Globe and Mail One of the most-repeated axioms in investing is 'you can't time the market.' While the prospect of buying stocks when they [...]

Byline: JOHN HEINZL; Staff We are using a dividend approach for our investing accounts and until recently we have made out quite well. But now, too often the dividends are [...]

Byline: IAN McGUGAN; Staff One of the first things that every investor learns is that chasing recent winners is a mug's game. This is true - but the reality is [...]

Byline: MARY GOODERHAM; Special to The Globe and Mail If you're sitting on cash to invest - either because you jumped out of the market at some point or have [...]

Byline: JOHN REESE While growth stocks continue to clobber value stocks, causing many investors to question their priorities, it's not time to declare the death of value investing. Sure, the [...]

Byline: EMILY HALVERSON-DUNCAN WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? Value-focused stocks within the Canadian universe. THE SCREEN Value investing is a common type of investing whereby investors search for stocks that [...]

Byline: JOHN REESE The trick to value investing is finding cheap stocks of wellrun companies that are about to rise but haven't yet caught the attention of investors. It is [...]

Byline: GORDON PAPE The greed factor is growing among American investors and that makes me nervous. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that there has been a significant [...]

Byline: Tim Shufelt; Staff As the havoc in markets was just getting under way that Monday morning 30 years ago, Tom Bradley thought he better speak up about some buying [...]

Byline: CHRIS UMIASTOWSKI I'm writing this Strategy Lab conclusion piece from my sunny backyard. It's late September and the Toronto area has been beautifully surprised by weather that makes it [...]

Byline: IAN McGUGAN; Staff There's a word for those people who loaded up on today's hottest technology stocks a few years ago. That word is 'rich.' Facebook Inc., Apple Inc., [...]

Byline: EMILY HALVERSON-DUNCAN What are we looking for? Momentum-driven stocks that capitalize on the upside while protecting on the downside. The screen Traditional momentum strategies are typically associated with extremes [...]

Byline: SCOTT CLAYTON What are we looking for? Canadian and U.S. growth stocks that do double duty as income stocks - with highly sustainable dividends. The screen For many investors, [...]

Byline: GEORGE ATHANASSAKOS The failure of two drivers of stock prices to work as expected has bedevilled value investors in recent years. First is the failure of profit margins to [...]

Byline: JOHN HEINZL; Staff Given Donald Trump's recent behaviour, I've concluded the U.S. market has probably run up as far as it's likely to go, and I've been selling off [...]

China was booming, and Nina Wang, a Hong Kong billionaire, wanted a piece of the action. It was 1995, and a group of investors was setting up the first nationwide [...]

If the stock market is a reflection of the stew of our emotions, it's pretty clear that nobody knew how to feel this week. Sure, a 4 percent swing in [...]

Byline: Matt Krantz Mobile apps range from the valuable to the utterly worthless. For every helpful map and navigator app, there are hundreds of bodily noise generators. Banks and brokerages, [...]

Byline: TOM BRADLEY THE BUY SIDE Tom Bradley is president of Steadyhand Investment Funds tbradley@steadyhand.com In addition to my day job, I sit on investment committees for two institutional funds, [...]

Carl Richards is a certified financial planner and the founder of Prasada Capital. Most of the traditional wisdom that we follow when we are making investment decisions is rooted in [...]

Byline: SHIRLEY WON EXCHANGE-TRADED FUNDS INVESTMENT FUNDS REPORTER It has been an annual ritual for many investors to flock to mutual funds for retirement plans, but exchanged-trade funds (ETFs) - [...]

NEW YORK -- Growing fears of war and global recession sent U.S. stock markets reeling yesterday, but many who returned to work on Wall Street still felt that -- up [...]

Investment dealer TD Evergreen has become the target of what is believed to be the first inquiry into stock-market manipulation by a Canadian broker using an Internet bulletin board. The [...]