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Q: Hi Peter, I apologize for a general question.
TD Direct Investing (aka TD Waterhouse) has told me that they can "journal entry" my gold stock positions from my CAD margin accounts to a CAD Cash account. The question I'm fussing with is whether the CRA will consider this JE transaction a deemed disposition (for Capital Gains reasons). I'm trying to avoid dealing with the CRA bureaucracy and did a google search to get some insight with no luck. Do you have an opinion on this? Do you know of any chat rooms, websites, other sources where I can get an answer?
Thanks for your patience, Ralph.
Read Answer Asked by Ralph on February 12, 2016
Q: would you buy cf at 3.77 or what would you recommend something else
Read Answer Asked by Allan on February 12, 2016
Q: Hello, thank you for the p / e article. Reading it made me reflect to p / e ratio vs p / cf and p / free cf. I thought professional money managers don t look too much at p / e but use p / free cf to really assess the merit of a company. Can you please comment on that and clarify how it is calculated. My understanding is that cf is net income plus all accounting expenses which are not really paid such as amortization and free cash flow involves reducing the cf by deducting all capex necessary to maintain your asset base. Please add some subtlety to your explanation if you have time. Thanks.
Read Answer Asked by Pierre on February 12, 2016
Q: Could you please update on alexco, have moved up a lot but don't know why? Volume hasn't changed much and I don't see any news.
Should I sell 1/2 position after such a nice move?
Read Answer Asked by Doug on February 11, 2016
Q: I am sure the gold bugs at Sprott are celebrating.
This stock has gone up alot for me and my position has grown from 1% to 6%. I think the company still looks very good however and there has been no insider sells yet. Any thing you see differently. I will probablly trim some and start buying some other beaten down sectors.
Read Answer Asked by blake on February 11, 2016
Q: I am hoping to retire in the next couple of years. If I can get a 4% return on my portfolio, I believe I'll be in great shape for many years. Recognizing that National is not your favourite bank, I can't help but look at the 6% return and wonder why I wouldn't buy this as a solid income producer. Canadian Banks (including NA)are very well regulated and if they all go under, we'll all have very big problems. Am I missing something or perhaps to ask the question another way, do you see a better place to get a fairly secure 6% return for many years into the future?
Read Answer Asked by David on February 11, 2016
Q: Good afternoon:

Would it be a wise more to borrow $100,000 on a line of credit and invest in the Model Balanced Equity Portfolio at this time.

We have zero debt are semi retired with indexed pensions.

Thank you

Mike
Read Answer Asked by Mike on February 11, 2016
Q: You previously mentioned that VET has "a fairly large debt level based on cash flow". and that "in the 3Q had $122 million in cash flow and paid $26 million in dividends, for a ratio of 21%".
Have these numbers changed at all - ie.- how much cushion does VET have to continue paying their dividend at the current level going forward or has their ability to continue "not cutting" their dividend been compromised?
Read Answer Asked by Alan on February 11, 2016
Q: Hello Peter and team:
Are we finally here for the so called ascent of Gold? Or is this another "teaser" by Gold? Worth dipping into Gold either as GLDor XGD? I know you prefer GLD but if I were to stocks what your favourites?
Read Answer Asked by Savalai on February 11, 2016
Q: I own aginco eagle, would like too add 2 gold companies with more torque,i was thinking of Alamos and richmont, what do you suggest. dave
Read Answer Asked by david on February 11, 2016
Q: Undiscovered oil is owned by the provinces and in the case of the Artic by Canada. The price is ridiculously low. Should we not be seeking some kind of political ban on future exploration to protect our children's interest in this resource? If we leave the pricing mechanism to the market and the market price is controlled by sovereigns (Saudi Arabia, Russa, Venezula etc)then you would think there has to be a floor price that Canada should set. I'm sure this question becomes mute when oil rebounds but nevertheless world markets are being adversely effected by someone trying to corner the oil market. Perhaps oil should be classified as too big to fail.
Read Answer Asked by Phil on February 11, 2016
Q: With the continuing decline in the share price of Canadian banks, would you consider ZWB to be a better alternative for bank exposure at this time for the next 6 to 12 months ?

Thanks
Read Answer Asked by Peter on February 11, 2016
Q: HI 5I
I would like to invest about $8000 each in 6 stocks (48000).
this would represent about a 2.5% position in each. I am currently fully invested in all banks,t,bce,ema,cgx,ipl, key,wsp,et and eci. Therefore I would hope you could identify something in addition to these.
Thank You Stan
Read Answer Asked by stan on February 11, 2016
Q: anything in their earnings to get excited about??? markets dont seem to think so.

Thx
Read Answer Asked by blake on February 11, 2016
Q: Hi All. I went to sell some MDA this morning in my Investorline account. The price quoted was 82.80 and the bid/ask quotes were 82.49/82.81. I noticed on my phone however a price of 83.71. Going to Stockwatch.com, I saw the last trade at 83.71. Had I not back-checked the information, I potentially could have sold at quite a discount based on the BMO information. What's going on here? Is this a typical situation that I just wasn't aware of?
Read Answer Asked by Rick on February 11, 2016
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