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Q: Tim Cook recenting made a planned stop in Toronto with Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke to look at Shopify's AR product. Should investors of Shopify read into any of this? Apple's largest aquistion of Beats $3 billion in 2014 would look small as the current market cap of Shopify is $12 Billion USD.
Maybe Apple is not looking to acquire Shopify, but it is a really great endorsement of what is to come from Shopify and that they will be a player in AR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Apple
Read Answer Asked by Terry on January 25, 2018
Q: I was looking through 5i to see if there were any updates on COR, but cannot find any reference to it when searching by symbol, or Question Text.
I know you have written about it somewhere, as I bought some shares as a result. Perhaps you mentioned it while answering a question on another company.
If this is the case, perhaps you could add "Answer Text" as part of your search function on the company questions.

Apart from that, you had recommended it because it had momentum. As seems to be usual, no sooner do I buy shares, than they lose momentum. What are your feelings about this company now?
Read Answer Asked by John on January 25, 2018
Q: Hi Peter, I would like to enter the Marijuana market and in Nov. you said it would be best to get in with an ETF or the top three operators, WEED, ACB and APH. Which would be the best buy to get in now under the circumstances at the present time. Thanks, Nick
Read Answer Asked by Nick on January 25, 2018
Q: In Leon’s recent comment about CSU.DB he said “So if the rate of inflation is 2% greater then the yr before and is 3.8 % then it is 6.5+ 2 NOT 6.5 plus 3.8”. You agreed with him.

However, the CSU.DB short form prospectus says “at a rate equal to the Cost of LivingcAdjustment (as defined below) (which amount may be positive or negative) plus 6.5% (“Floating Interest ”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the interest rate applicable to the Debentures will at no time be less than 0%.”

The Cost of Living Adjustment is defined as “the annual average percentage change in the CPI Index during the 12 month period ending on December 31 in the prior year. For the 12 month period ending on December 31, 2014, the Cost of Living Adjustment was 2.0%.”

So in Leon’s example, the rate would be 6.5 plus 3.8.

The correct understanding of this point is of major importance to me, and maybe to others. Please check your answer to Leon carefully once again and let me know whether you stand by your earlier validation of his interpretation and if so, why.
Read Answer Asked by Philip on January 25, 2018
Q: Lac saw a significant sell off last week after announcing paperwork being prepared on both sides of border for possible financing and confirmation as well as final date it will list on NYSE. I'm curious if you can tell me if either of these would have caused the sell off or if one or the other or neither. Your thought are appreciated. Either way I picked up more at the bottom.
Read Answer Asked by Todd on January 24, 2018
Q: Hi team,
I go to the U.S. mainly for tech stocks. I have FB, GOOG and SQ for some time now, happy with all. In Canada, I have KXS (thank you very much), BYL and OTEX (my perennial laggard that I still like).

There are many U.S. tech stocks on my watch list but I will ask about TTD, The Trade Desk. As I understand its model, it is into digital advertising by selling programming on a real-time electronic auction basis. TTD went public last year, had a strong run, faded back and seems to be acting better these days. I have seen positive comments on it on several U.S. business sites in the past month or so. One U.S. analyst (for what that’s worth) had it among his top ideas for 2018.

Your thoughts on this one?

Thanks again,
dave
Read Answer Asked by Dave on January 24, 2018
Q: I've been looking for an ETF that covers the Blockchain space. BLOK.N from Amplify looks interesting as a managed ETF. This should be much safer that trying to play on the Cryptocurrency side. I'm in the technology space (software) and sort of the exponential growth of unstructured data we now create, I have not seen such a transformational new technology such as Blockchain.

https://www.amplifyetfs.com/blok
Read Answer Asked by Greg on January 24, 2018
Q: Sitting out the weed stock ride is getting expensive and I am looking for a way to get involved with something that has some tangible reason to believe. Some stocks just seem to bounce up and down based on different sides speculating on the same news story. Are there three stocks you could recommend that are not a complete turkey shoot? What do you like about them?
Read Answer Asked by Tim on January 24, 2018
Q: Is this a company that you know anything about? Based on the website it sounds like they plan to get involved in selling marijuana world wide but I can't tell if there is an actual business today. I'm not contemplating a purchase but wonder what your thoughts would be on how to approach something like this stock.
Read Answer Asked by Tim on January 24, 2018
Q: Hi,
On Jan 23 someone asked about insider transactions info.
CEO.CA has a very easy-to-use insider function (sign-in not required).
Just enter the stock symbol in the CEO search bar; then click on the SEDI tab.
As an example, here is the link to Stella-Jones page.
https://ceo.ca/sj
Read Answer Asked by Irwin on January 24, 2018
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