Updating our Aggressive stocks: RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST, SNC-LAVALIN GROUP INC., and BOMBARDIER INC.

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RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $27(www.riocan.com) is raising its monthly distribution by 2.2% with the January 2013 payment, to $0.1175 a unit from $0.115. The new annual rate of $1.41 yields 5.2%. This is the first increase since 2008. Buy.SNC-LAVALIN GROUP INC. $42 (www.snclavalin.com) owns 50%of a joint venture that has won a contract to design and build a new natural-gas-fired power plant in New Jersey. Thanks to new turbines and other technology, this facility will be one of the most environmentally friendly power plants in the U.S. The company did not reveal the value of this contract, but the new plant should begin operating in 2015. Buy.BOMBARDIER INC. $3.98 (www.bombardier.com) has won a$226-million U.S. contract to build 35 passenger railcars for Germany’s Abello Rail. The company will deliver these trains by December 2015. In addition, it announced new orders for its CSeries passenger jets worth up to $3.7 billion U.S. Bombardier should start test flights of the CSeries in…