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Safer than gold
At $27 an ounce, silver’s price is nowhere near as high as the nearly $1,400 an ounce that gold is going for. But if you’re looking for quick gains, look again: believe it or not, silver’s meteoric rise has actually outpaced that of the seductive yellow metal — silver’s price has climbed 185% over the past five years, while gold has jumped by 133%. Why the rapid growth?...
Outlook 2011: Investor playbook (RRSPs)
If you heard a giant sigh of relief when the clock struck midnight on New Year’s, it likely came from Canadian investors, thankful that 2010 had come to an end. The year was a trying one. After shooting up by nearly 3,500 points in 2009, the market climbed only about 1,500 points last year. Daily talk of a double dip, soaring sovereign debt and uncertainty around the global economy’s...
Bryan Borzykowski is a Toronto-based writer and editor working mainly for business publications. He writes for the New York Times, Canadian Business magazine, Globe and Mail, Bloomberg Businessweek Custom Publishing, Toronto Star, MoneySense and more. Bryan's the editor of Review magazine and is a senior editor with Connected for Business magazine. He's also a contributing writer with Hello! Canada and was once a weekly music columnist for Metro News. He's been nominated for several National Magazine Awards and he's co-authored