With energy, materials and financials, you've got three quarters of the market chugging along. It's not the return of Nortel.

295

Capital markets performance was excellent, a blow-out quarter.

253

Once they sold the credit-card business, what was left was the store chain, which is not particularly impressive.

182

It's a reminder that the political uncertainties and the exciting areas of the world to which you have to go to find this stuff, leave oil vulnerable to supply disruptions.

171

General merchandisers have been lousy places to be, because management has not delivered and that format is very hard to pull off these days.

150

The underlying drivers of this market - resources, energy - are continuing to run very strongly at record highs in copper, nickel, zinc, aluminum, gold ... oil prices are back to 68 bucks a barrel despite this wonderful, balmy weather we're having.

138

Of course, foreign content is important for diversification. But you should be sure that you will match Canadian returns before you go above 15 or 20 per cent.

132

The boom in western Canada's resource economy will help Canadian Pacific.

77

Over half the banks' earnings these days comes from non-interest deposits.

58