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The number of profit-warning announcements over the past three months is near a decade low, according to brokerage firm Brockhouse Cooper.

The Dark Side of Strong Corporate Earnings

Toronto-based broker Brockhouse Cooper reckons a spike in oil prices to $130 a barrel would lower U.S. industrial-production growth from roughly 5% annually to about 4%.

Dollar's Haven Allure Slips on the Oil Patch

They often trade at a discount to the underlying price of the commodity itself: At $82 a barrel, for example, oil is priced for moderate global growth, says Pierre Lapointe , a Montreal-based strategist at brokerage firm Brockhouse Cooper, while oil stocks are priced for a recession.

Time to Ditch Commodities?

Brockhouse Cooper is a Montreal-based brokerage firm.

Corrections & Amplifications

"The increase in political turmoil is making investors look more at the idiosyncratic risks of each emerging market," says Alex Bellefleur , a financial economist at investment bank Brockhouse & Cooper Inc. in Montreal.

How to Play the Emerging Markets

McDonald's rivals Yum for international exposure, although Brockhouse Cooper analysts note only about 20% of revenue comes from the fast-expanding Asian-Pacific region.

Yum's Growth Prospects Have a Foreign Flavor

Montreal-based brokerage Brockhouse Cooper expects that partly for this reason, the S&P 500's dividend yield over the next few years will rebound to 2.7% from its current 2.2%.

Right Kind of Dividend Makes a Difference

Becton, Dickinson that Brockhouse says also generate at least a third of revenue from Europe.

Investors Try to Follow the Bouncing Euro

Shull was rewarded with the Physics Prize in 1994, together with Bertram N. Brockhouse, who specialized in another aspect of neutron scattering on condensed material: the small energy losses resulting when neutrons excite vibrational modes (phonons) in a crystalline lattice.

The Nobel Prizes in Physics 1901-2000

For this purpose, Brockhouse developed the 3-axis neutron spectrometer, by which complete dispersion curves (phonon energies as function of wave vectors) could be obtained.

The Nobel Prizes in Physics 1901-2000