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Revenue increases are not necessary to increase earnings. Cost cutting will do the same thing and could be considered even better than a revenue increase in some situations.

I'm not sure guidance of $0.45 to $0.65 vs. $0.49 estimate should be considered good news. There is still a $0.04 chance of not meeting estimates (bad news) and the fact that the range is so wide leads me to believe the company has some unpredictable events upcoming in the period which could...

Cramer touts many stocks and also bashes many stocks...I don't he's doing it for personal profit. I think Cramer is often misunderstood. The calls he makes are short term which is why his opinion on individual stocks often changes. Not only that but everyone is very quick to point out...

That's exactly what fair value accounting is... Fair value = market value.

I am currently long BNS and RY. What do you think of PCA as the Canadian oil play for 2009? Or would you prefer IMO or HSE perhaps?

Well you have to put your capital SOMEWHERE, so if none of the options above, where would you put it?

This is essentially true. Referring to the original question, I think the commissions are simply added to the cost base of the shares and you don't have the option of setting it up otherwise. I could be wrong but this is the impression I am under. Please let me know if you find out...

Capital losses in TFSA can only be claimed against capital gains in TFSA. You can't claim a capital loss from your TFSA account against capital gains made elsewhere.

http://ca.news.finance.yahoo.com/s/11032009/2/biz-finance-imf-sees-canada-better-placed-countries-facing-economic.html What stocks do you like on the TSX?

Dude, 75% of the posts and likely 75% of the views on this thread are from you. When you keep responding to your own comments the thread gets bumped to the top of the list, therefore receiving more views from people quickly browsing the boards. Non-value threads do not deserve value added...

Suspending mark to market would do absolutely nothing. It's no wonder they don't support suspending it...

Of course! Either that or it's one big huge massive enormous coincidence that their names are formatted the exact same...

LOL. Things that go down just keep going until they don't? What kind of analysis is this?

Why will the dollar's purchasing power dwindle due to excessive money printing? If the other major economies are also excessively printing money, won't the USD theoretically remain at the same level vs. these currencies?

Within say $5/barrel?

Good point. So don't get rid of mark to market, just effectively create the market through the government entity buying up those assets which will eliminate the worthless assets off the books. Am I correct in my summarization of your comment?

Getting rid of mark to market will only hide the true value of the assets. Personally I would rather see companies value these assets at fair value to give me the real picture of how the company is doing. Without mark to market balance sheets would APPEAR to be better but mark to market...

I've read Niall Ferguson's book titled "The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West" where he argues that conflict in the twentieth century (which he calls the bloodiest century) was due to economic volatility, ethnic disintegration, and the end of empires...

You sir are indeed crazy. But good luck to you nonetheless.

Being short AND long at the same time! What a brilliant strategy! Never wrong!