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Q: I have asked this question before and still do not have a good answer. Why is the Financial sector not recovering in the US Yesterday seen all the Payment companies getting hit hard Visa , PayPal MasterCard ,Square, US Banks held their own but are still lagging badly YTD Canadian companies including banks continue to lag the overall market. Time to exit the financial sectors or at least take some profits before they erode completely ? Thanks for your views on this
Read Answer Asked by Terence on October 09, 2018
Q: The preferreds of various insurance companies are getting whacked with numerous issues hitting yearly lows on Friday, including some not connected with the Mosten lawsuit such as GWO. As a holder of several investment grade issues of these companies it is difficult for me to quantify how large the potential liability could be. Does 5i have any sense of this?
Read Answer Asked by Jeff on October 09, 2018
Q: A comment on the lawsuit. I am a lawyer who does lot of work for banks and I pay attention to court rulings that effect them. If Manulife has to appeal any adverse ruling to the Supreme Court of Canada, Manulife is very likely to win this case. The Supreme Court has demonstrated in other cases that it will try to accommodate the daily business of financial institutions. For those who care about such things look at the recent case of Royal Bank vs. Trang.
Read Answer Asked by Murray on October 05, 2018
Q: Considering MFC position or SLF position, next week. MFC appears to have the better cash / share price ratio (29 vs 20), greater pullback from 52 wk high (16.5% vs 8.4%) and a slightly better dividend yield (3.79% vs 3.69%). SLF appears to have a tighter standard deviation than MFC, since 2012. I've seen past Q/A stating you prefer SLF over MFC. Your thoughts on these two life insure co's or other life insure co's would be appreciated.
Read Answer Asked by LARRY on October 01, 2018
Q: I've been a long time (over 10 years) owner of NLY and have added to the position several times. I'm considering adding to it again. The dividend is very high but they seem able to handle it. I had thought they would benefit from rising interest rates in the states but they seemed unaffected as the rates rose. My adviser says that it likely doesn't appreciate in price due to the fact that many investors just don't understand their business. I would be happy if all I ever made on this was the current dividend.
Do you have any insight here?
Read Answer Asked by Larry on October 01, 2018
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