I don't know if many people caught this, but on Wednesday during the day Research in Motion (RIM - the maker of the Blackberry) increased in share price enough to become Canada's largest publicly …

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So yesterday you found out that your bank may not actually own your mortgage anymore (even though they still "operate the storefront"). And you know that this amazing feat was accomplished …

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Similar to the capital markets, there exists a "primary" market for mortgages and a "secondary" market as well. You will be very familiar with the primary market - that is the …

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Beta is a term used to measure the correlation of volatility of a portfolio against the index in which it resides. The market has a Beta of 1 since it IS the market. Your portfolio would be more …

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It's a strange word when you sit down and think about it - doesn't seem to have any apparent roots like most other words. Mind you, no one probably thinks about it being a strange word seeing as how …

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I remember the first time I looked at investing in mutual funds was when I was 15 years old.  Upon getting my first job (McDonald's), my father made me setup an automatic contribution to a mutual …

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