Marty Whitman, the octogenarian dean of deep-value investing, sees great bargains to be snapped up from the current stock market meltdown. "It's a great time," enthused the 83-year-old founder of New York-based Third Avenue Management LLC before speaking yesterday at a conference organized by AIC Ltd.

Charles Maxwell, Senior Energy Analyst, Weeden & Co. correctly predicted the recent oil price spike and he sees an eventual move to around $300 a barrel. He shares his comments on what this might mean.

Ever since the broad market indexes entered into bear market territory and the dollar stopped falling against most of the major currencies, I have been checking the international dividend achievers list for bargains. I came up with the following dividend stocks list, using the followoing screen criteria:

China needs to diversify out the diving dollar and gain greater control of energy reserves - and Latin America serves both purposes best…

Encana has a large domestic base of resources, 19 million acres of undeveloped land in NA, an important strategic resource in the Alberta Oil Sands, a partnership with ConocoPhillips, a P/E of 15, a 1.2% dividend yield and some great growth prospects... What do you think of Encana?