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STOCKWATCH
One of the best all-in-one Canadian stock sites is Canada Stockwatch, which is the online companion to a newsletter Vancouver Stock Exchange-watcher John Woods has been running for years. - - - - - - - - - -
NEWS WIRES
There are three corporate press release services -- Canada Newswire is the longest-running, while Canadian Corporate News is a little younger, as is ISDN.
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SEDAR
The securities commissions in various provinces got together and created a one-stop shopping site for any securities documents filed by listed companies.
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YAHOO STOCKS
Yahoo! has a useful stock site that provides quotes, portfolio tracking, research and news stories from Reuters. It provides pretty fair coverage of Canadian stocks too.
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A good all-in-one site is called The Canadian Stock Market Reporter which offers quotes, analyst coverage, charts (going back 5 years in some cases ) and a portfolio-tracking function. There's also a site offered by Telenium, which supplies stock quotes and other info such as daily closes, and has a dial-up pay service as well. If you're interested in junior mining companies, the industry bible is The Northern Miner, while a good attempt at an all-in-one mining site is Info-Mine -- which provides quotes, background info and some of the more popular mining-related (speculative) newsletters such as Bob Bishop's gold newsletter and the Dines newsletter. One of the few Canadian sites that does a good job focusing specifically on hosting online chat groups -- much like Silicon Investor does for U.S. stocks -- is Stockhouse, which also offers a daily summary of news items from various wire sources, stock quotes and charts. The stocks that its chat boards focus on tend towards the speculative and small-cap.
When it comes to other sites, I regret to say that it's pretty slim pickings out there. A site called ASE Guide isn't affiliated with the exchange itself (which doesn't have a site of its own yet), but gives a minimum of stock info and a link to Stockwatch for quotes. A site called Canadian Finance looks fairly spiffy, and is not badly laid out, but consists largely of a collection of links -- many of which aren't that great and some of which don't work. A site called Investor Corner -- whose design and layout appears to be stuck in 1994 -- says it offers ten years of financial data and background info on more than 1,000 Canadian companies, but much of it is out-of-date and can be found more easily elsewhere.
In many cases, especially with junior oil and gas or mining stocks, these home pages are hosted by another site called Stock Research Group -- which appears to be a marketing entity aimed at promoting small-cap stocks through several related sites it also hosts, including Investor Marketplace, a chat-related site called Investor Exchange, an oil and gas site called Petroleum Stocks and a diamond stock site called (not surprisingly) Diamond Stocks. There's another site that specializes in Vancouver stocks, called Howe Street, which is run by a data-feed company called Stox Broadcast and offers daily trading activity reports and some news releases -- but is also nothing to write home about in the design department, and a little thin in other areas too.
When it comes to online trading, the Hongkong Bank of Canada has NetTrader and Toronto-Dominion Bank has Webbroker. An electronic trading firm called Versus Technologies did a deal with E*Trade to set up E*Trade Canada, which also offers mutual funds. The Vancouver Stock Exchange has a page, as does The Montreal Exchange, and the Toronto Stock Exchange finally has one too. Alberta doesn't have one yet.
As for mutual funds, the Globe and Mail has a site that's worth a look (this is completely impartial, I assure you) called GlobeFund, which not only allows you to check on a portfolio of funds but to search the Globe's mutual fund special reports for news about those same funds. When it comes to fund companies, Altamira Investment Services has a good site, Trimark Mutual Funds has one, and so does AGF. The Royal Bank's mutual fund page is pretty good, as is Bank of Montreal's First Canadian Funds page, and Scudder Funds of Canada have a newish site. Fund Library has a nice feature in Fund Watch, a regular column written by my former Financial Times colleague Rudy Luukko. The Times' fund analysis tools known as BellCharts have their own page here. Eugene Ellman -- author of The Canadian Ethical Money Guide -- has a page called The Ethical Money Guide. If you're looking for information about retirement, a thoughtful soul has set up something he calls RetireWeb that looks chock full of stuff.
When it comes to Canadian-content sites, there are a few that attempt to be all-in-one Canadian investment resources, including one from Intuit, makers of the popular Quicken financial software, called Quicken.ca, and there's an independent site called I*Money. Both offer a full range of financial information, including stock quotes and portfolio management tools, mutual fund info and advice columns, and in I*Money's case some discussion groups. If you have any comments or additions, feel free to e-mail me.
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