Is the high (and rising) Canadian dollar taking devaluing your U.S. stocks? Yes it is… So how do you invest with the high Canadian dollar?

Looks like the Canadian athletic wear company Lululemon Athletica Inc. (TSX:LLL) is living up to its positive expectations since the company’s initial public offering. Lululemon is hiking its third-quarter profit forecast after increasing its comparable-store sales outlook to about 35-percent.

According to CIBC World Markets, the Canadian economy will “outperform” the United States economy in 2008.

Waterloo, ON - based Research in Motion [RIM-T] beat all expectations on their second-quarter profits report.

Way to go, RIM! They have well-established an innovative company with natural, reliable growth. Great model chages, and agressive rollouts. Looks like RIM isn’t handing out its market share for dinner to anyone - not to Microsoft’s VM-devices, not to Apple’s iPhone.

Prices are sticky downwards - we all know it. Now Canada can witness it at its finest. Sure the Canadian and American dollars are near parity on the markets, but not at the retail cash registers.

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day is a good statement and it is true that we do sometimes stumble on precious stone but the probability of it’s happening in business world is pretty dim. In this process business clock does not give the right time twice a day!

Hilton Hotels Corp. [HLT-N] today reported that shareholders approved the company’s $20.1-billion (USD) sale to The Blackstone Group LP [BX-N].

Canadian-American dollar parity - more closer than we think? Well, the gap certainly seems to get smaller and smaller. Last week the Canadian dollar traded in Toronto at a new 30-year-high, at 97.04 cents USD.

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Canada has historically always been the number-1 seller of goods to the United States. China has now firmly eclipsed Canada for that position. This remarkable shift in trade reflects the Asian consumer goods juggernaut’s deeper penetration of the U.S. market. This also signals Canada’s special trading relationship with Washington is becoming… less “special”.

Shareholders press for Canada's exchanges - TSX (Toronto) and MX (Montreal) - to merge

Microsoft RIM… doesn’t sound too bad, eh? Well, definitely doesn’t sound too bad for Research in Motion (RIM-T) shareholders, whose shares rose today on speculation that the Canadian-maker of the BlackBerry handheld device could be bought by Microsoft Corp (MSFT-Q).

We are well passed those days where we could simply put Canada and America side-by-side to forecast their respective currencies against one another.

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Much of the foreign investment in the Canadian oil industry has been aimed at exploiting the oil sands, which contain reserves second only to Saudi Arabia.