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The best of the web on money, markets and all things financial, as chosen daily by Globe and Mail personal finance columnist Rob Carrick.
Should you help your kids buy a house?
Here are a mortgage brokerage firm's thoughts on this question and here's my take.
The 2.99 per cent mortgage is back
Competition among a few smaller lenders has driven rates below the 3 per cent threshold for five-year fixed rate mortgages.
Top personal finance blogs
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Explaining gold prices
Mystified by gold? It says here that all you have to do to understand gold prices is track the real yield – that's after inflation – of 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds.
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