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Please tell me how exactly housing demand is going to continue to increase as rapidly as it has over the past few years, when most people need to obtain mortgages in order to purchase their properties. We are going to soon reach a point where borrowers just simply cannot afford to pay for the...

Two things. First, I should mention that there isn't any tax benefit to carrying a mortgage in Canada, there is no tax deduction for mortgage interest paid except for rental properties. Second (and more importantly), I have to say that I'm somewhat suprised that you feel that right now is a...

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Except that it generally only rises by about the same rate as inflation annually, and has been doing much more than that recently. It's also worth noting that people generally need to be able to afford the mortgages for the houses that they are buying, and that is becoming increasingly...

On that note, maybe they should introduce "the naked business news" eh? :p

I have to admit, I'm a bit suprised to see another business news channel popping up. It's the type of TV that I'm actually interested in (I watch RobTV regularly), but I wonder how successful they will be.

I'm personally a bit suprised that you feel that INTC has zero probability of going above $22.80 or so per share between now and January 2007, particularly considering that it spent nearly all of 2005 trading at or above that level. Yes, I understand the fundamentals, given that AMD is...

I've read many great things about the Dell 24" monitor, but something to keep in mind is that you need a pretty hefty gaming rig to be able to play games at its native resolution.

Right or wrong, I'm kind of suprised that countries haven't learned by now that they shouldn't fuck with the US (I'm a Canadian by the way). The language coming out of Iran right now reminds me a great deal of that Taliban guy that used to trash talk the US every day shortly after 9/11, and...

Here is some Canadian perspective on this: Housing starts, home sales and prices will decline this year, CMHC predicts Posted 1/31/2006 OTTAWA (CP) - Canada's home-building industry will slow by 7 1/2 per cent this year and a further 6 1/2 per cent in 2007, Canada Mortgage and Housing...

I've seen all sorts of analyst estimates as well, but I could just as easily do the same: "Chagi predicts that oil will be $263 within the next two years...", my point being that some of these analyst estimates are quite silly.

AVG. It's free for personal use. Enough said. :)

On the weather aspect, I live in Alberta, Canada, and we tend to have some pretty crappy winters (-20 Celcius or lower is not uncommon at all). We have had an unusually warm winter, with temperatures hovering a little under 0 celcius for most of the winter. We are now in February, and if...

I'm sorry, but I have to disagree. Oil was trading at $25-$30/barrel for oil in 2002. I just finished a book on Enron, and it was commenting on how at one point during Enron's life, natural gas was a pretty crappy thing to be producing/transporting/selling, they almost had to give it away...

Here are a few brief examples of charts that are looking to me like they have the potential to break down a fair bit (all are traded on TSX): Cameco - CCO - This is a uranium play, not an oil stock, but still in the energy commodity space CNQ - Canadian Natural Resources ECA - Encana IMO...

I've been watching a lot of Canadian energy stocks lately, as well as the trading of oil and natural gas specifically, and I can't help but be starting to feel that there isn't much further upside over at least the short to medium term. Many of the big Canadian energy stocks are starting to look...

I was personally kind of suprised to see how long it stabilized in the region of $35 or so per share, after such a large upwards move.

I'm curious, which 19" widescreen monitor are you using? I haven't looked at the Acer yet, but I saw the Viewsonic model at Staples a week ago, and I thought it was terrible. Could have just been the particular unit, but it had major backlight bleed issues.

I watched on the sidelines with a great deal of suprise while RMBS went vertical, volatility went out of the stock for a few days, now looks set to move further downwards.

January 27 chart attached. Stock dropped about 1% on the day, I'm interested to see what the stock will do on Monday (e.g. further downwards correction/consolidation?).