Investments

China to exceed target growth rate

Despite the country’s softening growth rate, fund managers still have a positive outlook on Chinese equities, with an economic “soft landing” expected this year.

March 13, 2012

2 min read

Silver at risk as China slows

Despite a 13% surge at the beginning of 2012, silver stocks have stagnated recently as China's factory output, retail sales and investment data have all slowed, along with a further drop in the country’s inflation rate to a twenty month low.

March 13, 2012

1 min read

Court approves distribution of ABCP funds

An Ontario court has approved a plan submitted by the OSC and IIROC to distribute funds to investors burned in the third-party Asset-Backed Commercial Paper (ABCP) fiasco that began in 2007.

By Staff |March 13, 2012

1 min read

All “volunteers”, please step forward

Wow! What a busy week. Things started poorly for investors as markets violently adjusted to the prospect of slower global economic growth. China cut her 2012 economic growth target and Europe reported its economy shrank in the fourth quarter last year. Greece also weighed with the lack of progress on the Private Market Initiative (PMI) to swap existing bonds for new bonds.

By David Andrews |March 12, 2012

5 min read