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Bank on Canadian Banks

2013-05-13T09:01:50-04:00By David Baskin|Categories: Blog|Tags: Bank of Montreal, Barry Schwartz Baskin Financial, Baskin Financial Services, Buy Canadian Banks, Canadian Banks, CIBC, David Baskin BNN, Don't short Canadian, National Bank, Royal Bank, Scotiabank, short Canadian banks, TD Bank|

There have been a number of stories in the press in the last month speculating that the major Canadian banks are in danger of suffering the kind of melt-down that almost destroyed the American banking industry in 2008. The boom [...]

You can. Or maybe you can’t

2013-04-29T14:48:19-04:00By Barry Schwartz|Categories: Blog|Tags: Apple, Barry Schwartz Baskin Financial, Barry Schwartz BNN, Baskin Financial Services, BNS, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, National Bank, National Bank raises dividend, Scotiabank, Share buybacks|

You can’t say that stocks are at all-time highs. Adjusted for inflation, the S&P 500 is 25% below its previous peak over 13 years ago. You can say that stocks are cheap, given that earnings on the S&P 500 are [...]