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real estate

Booming Toronto’s Real Estate – is it a signal before storm or still long way to go?

What do you think? Since last 5 years Toronto’s real estate is booming to its new heights. Average house cost crossed a million dollar mark!! Not everyone can afford to buy it. What is means? Is Toronto going taking the similar direction as New York took is 2008 and suffered a distarious storm of property […]

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commodities

Oil prices, what is happening…

Since many weeks, oil prices are falling. Everyone is eagerly watching market and some are in panic for these events specially in countries where economy is based on natural resources e.g. Canada. In Canada this year so far many have lost their job and specially Alberta has suffered a lot due to dip in oil […]

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stocks

What is happening with Oi telecom (NYSE: OIBR)

There is so much going on with this stock and recently this company is in picture with very high volume and too much volatility concerned with its future. We are actively watching this stock and recent news related to this company since many months now. Here are some thoughts: First of all we need to […]

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stocks

American Apparel Inc. (NYSEMKT: APP) stock future outlook?

Since last few weeks American Apparel Inc. (NYSEMKT: APP) is in news and one can see average trading volume is in the range of ~5 million!! There is a lot going on behind the scene. One can see  -20% to +20 fluctuations in stock price just because of some market news. Last week board of […]

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hedge funds

Hedge fund strategies – what theory says!

Hedge funds have become very popular among very wealthy communities as preferred medium of investment. To our knowledge there is no standard definition of hedge funds but common characteristics of hedge fund are: private investment fund which invest in variety of asset classes and employs a great variety of investment strategies. Even during 2008 market […]

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stocks

Apple stock split?

Today afternoon when I checked my portfolio, I was a bit shocked to see Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) trading around ~ US$97 which was about ~ US$700 last week. Then I realized that its stock split has taken place which was announced a few months earlier. Apple’s stock went for 7-for-1 stock split thus creating […]

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bonds

Investment in Bonds: is it a good idea?

Present economic situation is presenting a hard challenge for bond investors. Yield of government bonds is going down. There is a significant amount volatility is present with bond investment now a days. There is threat of interest rate volatility, longer term infaltion, and ongoing European debt crises for bond investors. This is a very difficult […]

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stocks

AMD bouncing back?

AMD was struggling since few months and investors were skeptical about whether to invest in this company or not to invest. Since few months its stock was depressed. Since PC sales was declined in past months, AMD was not looking good. Howvever the scenario looks a bit different now and favours AMD. AMD is a […]