Top Picks- Week March 16th

by Ray on March 21, 2009 · 0 comments

Every weekend I’ll be posting the top picks from BNN’s market call guests. If you are not familiar with Market call here is a quick overview:

Market call and Market call tonight is on Business News Network (BNN) every week day, it features portfolio managers who take calls from audience and give their opinion. In the last 5 minutes of the show the guests discuss 3 top picks.

I will post them here every weekend in case you have missed them during the week, and you can share your thoughts on them. The last pick (red) is “Market Call Play of the day”.

NEW: From this week I’ll be picking those stocks (with a YEA) that I would buy for my personal portfolio. My investment style: Value oriented, growth and income looking for dividends and growing dividends).

Market Call

John Zechner, chairman, J. Zechner Associates
Nexen (NXY.to)
TD (TD.to)
Research in Motion (RIM.to)

Dennis Mitchell, portfolio manager, Sentry Select Capital Corp
Canadian REIT (REF.UN.to)
Boardwalk (BEI.UN.to)
First Capital Realty First Capital 5.5 2017 Convertible Bond

Jeff Parent, associate portfolio manager at Quadrexx Asset Management
CI Financial SHORT (CIX.to)
Cinaplex Galaxy I.F. (CGX.UN.to)
Centex (CTX)

Ken McCord, president & CEO, Webb Asset Management
Scotia Bank (BNS.to) Long stock, SHORT March 34 Call
Long Pembina Pipeline I.F. (PIF.UN.to)
Barrick Gold (ABX.to), April $25USD Put

David Driscoll, partner, Toron Capital Markets
BHP Billiton (BHP Australia)
Sigma Aldrich (SIAL, Nasdaq)
Lindt & Spruengli (LISP, Switzerland)

Market Call Tonight

Joey Mack, Director – fixed income, ScotiaCapital
GIC’s
Canada Housing Trust
Real Return Bonds

Michael Smedley, chief portfolio manager, Morgan, Meighen & Associates
Stella-Jones (SJ.to)
Lundin Mining (Lun.TSX)
Trican (TCW.to)

David Abella, portfolio manager & senior equity analyst, Rochdale Investment Management
Exxon Mobil (XOM)
AT&T (T)
Hershey (HSY)

Greg Taylor, portfolio manager, Aurion Capital Management
Talisman (TLM.to)
ONEX Corp (OCX.to)
Research Motion (RIM.to)

Michael Yoshikami, president & chief investment strategist, YCMNET Advisors
McDonald’s Corp (MCD)
Wal-Mart (WMT)
Costco Wholesale (Cost, Nasdaq)

Personal Pick

YEA: TD, BNS and McDonalds

Full Disclousre: None

Disclaimer:

This is is only for entertainment purposes, please consult a professional financial adivsor before making your investment.

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