Quotes by Gavin Graham

“There are too many department stores in Canada. It simplifies the corporate structure so he doesnt have to worry about minority shareholders. If he wants to start selling real estate and leasing back stores, he can do that and get some cash back. It gives him complete control.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“With energy, materials and financials, youve got three quarters of the market chugging along. Its not the return of Nortel.”

“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 were having.”

“The boom in western Canadas resource economy will help Canadian Pacific.”

“Its 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.”

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