Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Factory shipments rebound

MANUFACTURERS shrugged off a lacklustre finish to 2004 in January with their strongest increase in shipments in 10 months.    more >>

Record foreign investment in Canadian stocks

FOREIGN investors acquired record holdings of Canadian stocks in the fourth quarter of 2004.    more >>

Canadian investors sell off US stocks

CANADIAN investors sold a record $3.2 billion in foreign stocks in January. Three-quarters of the total was due to the largest ever monthly sell-off of US stocks by Canadian investors.    more >>

SPOTLIGHT: Investment abroad

This week’s Spotlight is on Canadian direct investment in offshore financial centres. Canadian companies are steering more of their financial assets away from the United States and into other nations, including so-called “tax havens”, many of which are in the Caribbean.    more >>

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