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Q: hello team,
I was wondering about Teck TCk.b. What is the future for itdo you think. i have been thinking about buying it my rrsp and immediatly afterward selling a corresponding amount it in my non registered account for a tax loss. Ican't see anything wrong with this strategy, although i could be missing something. sdo, my question mainly hasto do with how you see Teck
thanks claire
Read Answer Asked by joseph on September 23, 2014
Q: Hi Peter and Team, you mentioned in another post that PGF isn't your favorite oilk stock, what would you recommend instead?
Thank you
Nancy
Read Answer Asked by Nancy on September 23, 2014
Q: Do you have any suggestions with regard to selling your losers? For example, I own Avigilon (AVO) and currently have a loss of 41% and keep on holding it with the hope that some good news will be on the horizon and the stock will head up. Frankly, I wish I had sold it long ago. I know that some investors have a rule if a stock drops 7-10% from purchase price, it is sold. Do you have any general recommendations for selling losers? Thanks, Bill
Read Answer Asked by William J on September 23, 2014
Q: Hi
TKM had some very good news today regarding its Ebola drug.
Would you guys personally invest in this company if you could?

Thanks
Hersh
Read Answer Asked by Hersh on September 23, 2014
Q: Would you prefer E or PRW today Thanx Robbie
Read Answer Asked by Robert on September 23, 2014
Q: Could I have your perspective on today's market meltdown? .... certainly not a "Black Tuesday", but painful none the less.
Is there anything in your 2 portfolios that you would grab at these reduced prices?

Thanks and welcome home!
Read Answer Asked by Donald on September 23, 2014
Q: I find preferred shares a very complex area (other than perhaps fixed date callable/retractable). Could there be some catches to them requiring a review of the prospectus.

For resets, I don't suppose that yield to maturity takes into account whether the reset provisions result in an equivalent security e.g a change in spread to Canada's relative to the spread on original issue date. Or can one depend on such a change not occurring.
Read Answer Asked by Carl on September 23, 2014
Q: Following on with Alan's question of 09/22 would you please make recommendations for specific "exposure to fixed income" investments.
thank you
Deborah
Read Answer Asked by Deborah on September 22, 2014
Q: T:AD - ALARIS ROYALTY CORP
Please provide me a recommend a list of Canadian companies that can benefit from us markets and us growth . I believe that AD would be an example as it is in the us or moving that way ? . I prefer dividend stocks.
Thanks
Yossi
Read Answer Asked by JOSEPH on September 22, 2014
Q: What's your view on what's going on in the markets today?
Read Answer Asked by Sasha on September 22, 2014
Q: Could I get your opinion on ZHY. I'd like to entertain a bond position with pending interest rate increase on the horizon. Is this the right instrument and is the timing right?
Read Answer Asked by Carl on September 22, 2014
Q: I appreciate the wealth and wonderful information you have been accumulating on your site. I have a general strategy question. On building just a dividend income portfolio, using Canadian blue chip companies, there is a sense that the rise and fall in stock market price becomes back ground noise. These tend to be very long term holds however some of these companies can get some bad press which exaggerates a fall in price and then it bounces right back. Is there a critical no return price to watch for in these blue chip long term hold companies? For example would a fall of more than 15% in price be a trigger for something more than just stock market noise?
Read Answer Asked by Phil on September 22, 2014
Q: I wanted to follow-up a comment that was made ... perhaps a week ago ... ??? when you responded to another member's request for target pricing: your response suggested you might consider doing a webinar on how investors could construct their own target prices on companies.

YES! A thousand times yes! Consider me first on that registration list, if it ever comes to pass. I have always found it a challenge, and a mystery, when it comes to knowing just when to get out of a stock. Having some sort of mid-level confidence is assessing a company's inherent worth would take away so much grief and second-guessing.

Market timing, as you have inspired in us so well, is a mug's game. So, having some sort of sense of when a stock might be "fully valued" without having to incessantly rely on your analysis of each individual stock in the portfolio, would provide immeasurable freedom to know how to handle -- and to make our own determinations on when to hold 'em, and when to fold 'em.

Thanks for everything on this site! -- as well as for your wonderful endeavour this summer on behalf of children with cancer. An amazing accomplishment for such a worthy cause.
Read Answer Asked by Sylvia on September 22, 2014