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For investors, the Almanac tells us that October is the start of the period of the year that has historically had the best performance in the stock market.

Now is an excellent time to buy undervalued Canadian stocks. Canada’s housing market and the banking sector are healthy.

I recently had the opportunity to talk stocks with one of our value-investing-focused contributors, who said that the biggest challenge he’s facing right now is finding investments that are still undervalued. That’s a slightly alarming comment, as it suggests that stock prices have been bid up to unsustainably high levels...

Options are derivatives of stock and their prices are very strongly related to the amount of volatility in their underlying stocks.

There isn’t one stock that can’t go south at a moment’s notice, so build your portfolio of a group of stocks and use a strict sell discipline.

For today’s Dividend Edition of Investment of the Week, I wanted to introduce investing with dividend reinvestment plans, or DRIPs. We have two Dick Davis Digest contributors who focus exclusively on investing with DRIPs, and others who recommend them occasionally. So DRIPs appear in the Digests fairly regularly, and I...

“Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL, $30) is outshining its less-than-truckload (LTL) peers. While most LTL carriers reported lower tonnage in the June quarter, Old Dominion reported a 9% increase. The seventh-largest LTL carrier is working to increase market share and operating leverage by building its network. Confident of its future,...

By its very nature, growth investing requires a higher amount of risk tolerance and at least a pinch of optimism.

October is peak tourist season in Salem, as the city gears up for a massive Halloween spectacle at the end of the month.

If I simply say, ”I predict the market will be up next month,” I’m likely suggesting that prices will probably advance by at least 1% and no more than 20%.