It’s only October and Halloween hasn’t even passed yet.
However, it’s not too early to start planning your holiday meals and baking. I was in the store the other day and they already have the special center aisle display set up with all of the traditional baking ingredients. Things like stuffing mix, cranberries, pie shells, nuts, and pumpkin were already set out. At first I thought, “Good grief, it’s too early for this.” But then I realized that it’s really not. If you start planning your holiday meals now, you can end up saving some money over waiting until the last minute.
Go ahead and sit down, take a few moments and think about what you’ll be doing this season. Will you host Thanksgiving at your house, or will you just bring a pie to your mother-in-law’s gathering? Will you need to
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Over the last month, five S&P 500 issues have declared their intention to break off part of their ongoing business operating and distribute the shares to existing holders, leaving them with separate companies, and eleven separate stocks. Unlike the typical buy, merge and grow through acquisitions philosophy, this approach speaks to a more centralized product line, with future M&A concentrating on closely related product lines. The separation also leaves investors with the decision of keeping or selling the issues, since the new entities need to be evaluated separately. Historically speaking, there are no rules, and there are no clear winners or losers; there is however an old saying to follow senior management – that’s where the money is (or is going). Over the next month or so, each company will distribute information regarding the separation, along with proforma income and balance sheet information. S Read more…
Growing optimism that there will be a solution to the European sovereign debt crisis, and better-than-expected September retail sales data from the U.S. on Friday, helped push Canada’s benchmark stock index to a 4.25% gain for the week.
The S&P/TSX composite index crossed the psychologically important 12,000 barrier to close the week at 12,081.73 on Friday, a gain of 169.84 points, or 1.43% for the day. Resources were responsible for the bulk of the gains, as eight of the 10 sub-indexes advanced, led by energy, up 2.93%, and materials, up 1.98%.
The Dow Jones industrial average gained 166.36 points, or 1.45% to close the week at 11,644.49, while the Nasdaq composite roe 47.61 points, or 1.82%, to 2,667.85.
Canada’s junior Venture exchange rose 24.98 points, or 1.63%, to 1,557.61.
The price of crude oil jumped US$2.57 to US$86.80 a barrel, and gold gained US$14.50 to US$1,683.00 an ounce.
The Canadian dollar rose 89 basis points to 98.96 US cents.
“Recessionistas took it on the chin in the past week,” BMO Capital Markets deputy chief economist Douglas Porter wrote in a note. “First,
Fusing new technology and social media President Obama hosted his first Linkedin Town hall meeting in Silicone Valley promoting his jobs plan and answering questions through Jeff Weiner.
This was an old fashioned on the road again election pitch mixed with new Social Media audiences , aimed at young professionals and jobs seekers and possibly disillusioned voters who he needs so desperately. Obama made no concessions to GOP and Wall street during this meeting. He came across as a President seriously concerned about the slowing economy and earnestly engaged in doing something better for the American people.