http://www.loucaci.com/ The Lou Caci Group at ScotiaMcLeod - Features en 2008-08-20T23:18:21-07:00 hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://www.loucaci.com/loucaci-feature-action/id.25/title.weekly-market-strategy Historically gold has always been viewed as a store of value, an inflation hedge against the U.S. dollar and a safe haven in periods of geopolitical tensions. 2008-08-18 http://www.loucaci.com/loucaci-feature-action/id.24/title.weekly-market-strategy Recession Fears Now Rule 2008-08-11 http://www.loucaci.com/loucaci-feature-action/id.23/title.mid-year-checkup Six months ago we provided our reader with a number of focus themes that we thought would emerge during 2008. Last week we highlighted three of those themes and this week we’ll review the rest: 2008-07-29 http://www.loucaci.com/loucaci-feature-action/id.22/title.weekly-market-strategy S&P 500 & MSCI World Officially in Bear 2008-07-17 http://www.loucaci.com/loucaci-feature-action/id.21/title.weekly-market-strategy Economic Outlook, Fixed Income Strategy and more... 2008-07-08 http://www.loucaci.com/loucaci-feature-action/id.20/title.bce-update On Friday June 20th following market close the Supreme Court of Canada issued a judgment in favour of BCE which affirmed the original Quebec Superior Court judgment by Judge Silcoff for the Plan of Arrangement which would see BCE (BCE) acquired by a consortium of investors led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. This set aside the Quebec Court of Appeal judgment which was in favour of the Bell Canada bondholders. 2008-06-24 http://www.loucaci.com/loucaci-feature-action/id.19/title.weekly-market-strategy Week of June 23, 2008 2008-06-23 http://www.loucaci.com/loucaci-feature-action/id.18/title.weekly-market-strategy The U.S. economy lost 49,000 jobs in May, pushing average monthly losses to 65k so far in 2008. Private payrolls, which are a better proxy for the corporate sector's hiring mood, fell 66,000 last month (See adjacent chart). More dramatically, the unemployment rate jumped to 5.5% from 5% in April, its highest level in over three years and the biggest increase since 1986. 2008-06-12 http://www.loucaci.com/loucaci-feature-action/id.17/title.weekly-market-strategy Mid-Year EPS & Target Revisions 2008-06-04 http://www.loucaci.com/loucaci-feature-action/id.16/title.weekly-market-strategy Week of April 28, 2008 2008-04-28