Using a broker to buy my new wheels was easier -- and cheaper. (Toyota Motor Corp.)
I finally bought a new car. So I wait about a decade before opening
my wallet, and that should be interesting? No. But how about the fact
that I saved close to $4,000 and barely broke a sweat doing it?
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A farmer harvests sugar cane at a state-owned farm near Nanning, Guangxi province, China. Sugar has been trading near 29-year highs. (Bloomberg)
This year may turn out to be the year of the commodity fund. Burnt
by the financial crisis of the last two years, money managers are now
sharply raising the amount of money allocated to raw materials such as
oil, gold, copper, sugar and coffee.
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"You can never count America out," says Tony Boeckh, president of Boeckh Cpital Co. Ltd. in Montreal. "It has an incredible ability to rediscover itself and rejuvenate." (Getty Images)
It's got a trillion-dollar deficit monkey on its back, its consumers
have been gutted, its housing and banking sector could take years to
recover, and its currency is a dog.
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A federal task force will help Canadians become more financially literate in a year when many are drowning in debt. (Getty Images)
OTTAWA — Laurie Campbell has devoted much of her adult working life to
the agonizing task of helping Canadians who are drowning in debt.
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In the quarterly earnings season just completed, the six major banks met or beat street expectations. (National Post)
Canadians who have profited from how our financial
institutions weathered the global economic crisis wonder whether the
punch bowl has been removed and the investment party is over.
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