Found! A Source for Canadian Stock Ideas

With Canadian stocks, the only thing scarcer than U.S. press coverage is good research. Which isn't to say that no research is being done. It's just that most of it is done by Canadian brokerage houses, which, like their U.S. counterparts, save the best stuff for clients.

There's one exception, though: Groome Capital, a Montreal investment bank that posts its research online at www.groomecapital.com. The idea, according to founder Richard Groome, is to emulate Wit Capital and DLJ Direct by underwriting IPOs and marketing shares to clients via the Web. "We intend to become the portal for emerging Canadian companies," he says. ...