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I usually don’t promote trading accounts and won’t make it a habit either, but when the product is good and there is a promotion, I believe you should know about it. Open a trading account with TradeKing and put $50 in your pocket!*. TradeKing is celebrating their 5th anniversary in 2011 and they are offering this promotion for a limited time (Account must be opened before January 31st 2011!). Since I am Canadian and can’t open a trading account with TradeKing, I can't take advantage …

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Quick news after the markets close; National Bank of Canada, the first bank to declare its financial results for their Q4 and year end announced they hike their dividend to 0.66$ per share per quarter. Therefore, the dividend rise to $2.64 per year and represents a 3.89% yield. Nationale Bank revenues are up by 19% for Q4 and 21% for compared to year 2009. Gradually other Canadian banks will post their financial results and some others are also expected to raise their dividend. Just …

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We are coming to the end of this SRI series today with the ultimate question: as an individual investor; can you make socially responsible investing choices while making money? In order to answer this question, I had to go back and look at what we previously discussed: - What is SRI means and biggest Social Investment Indexes - Socially Responsible Stock List That Pays Dividend - My Socially Responsible Stock Portfolio (averaging a 3.5% dividend return) In my most recent post …

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