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Open this photo in gallery:William Aldridge, the senior VP portfolio manager and co-lead of the North American equities team at Mackenzie Investments.Greg Trumper/The Globe and MailWilliam Aldridge’s interest in stocks began during the 1990s bull market. But riding his bike to work as an analyst for a Toronto investment bank put him on a path to his dream job as a portfolio manager. (Well, that and an MBA.) He often ran into fellow cyclist Robert Tattersall, co-founder of mutual fund firm Saxon Financial. Tattersall invited Aldridge for tea and offered...

Open this photo in gallery:Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, on March 5, in New York City.Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesYou cannot possibly process every piece of data related to your finances in a trade war, so forget about even trying.Instead, try taking a periodic look at these five essential numbers. They were picked because they offer a double-dose of investor intelligence. What’s happening in a particular market or sector, and what that says about the broader economy and investing environment.The S&P 500Given that investors tend to...