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Discussing the Death Cross in a sensationalistic context is sexy and makes for good financial pornography and conversation over cocktails but that's about all. Here's why.

Market volatility at the beginning of 2016 spurred many investors to seek a safe place to ride out the storm. As is often the case, the stocks they favored lagged in the recovery, and may be less safe than investors think. Let me explain.

I believe each of these 10 companies represent a high level of safety and the opportunity to produce above-average current dividend income and long-term dividend growth.

The better an investor can identify the phases of a market cycle, the more profits can be made on the ride upwards of a buying opportunity.

Since the beginning of the year, Canadian equities have been on a (relative) tear, outpacing most developed and emerging market equities in Canadian dollar terms but this recent brush with greatness begs the question: Is this year’s success the beginning of a long-term trend or a brief flash in the pan?

We see a wider gap between the prospective returns for safe-haven and risk assets, reflected in higher expected returns for equities versus bonds and for non-U.S. equities versus U.S. equities.

Gold & gold mining stocks have been some of the best performers this year. What’s behind that rally and can it continue?

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The fact that margin debt is now in a downtrend and its relatively massive size suggests returns over the next three years will be very poor. In other words, based solely on this one measure, buying stocks today presents investors with a great deal of risk for very little potential reward.

Apple Inc.’s 15% YTD stock price fall could take a bite out of the reported earnings of the following 5 tech stocks.