Tailwinds and Headwinds were originally posted in the Weekly Updates for May 6 and May 13, respectively. When I originally wrote about these two topics in May 2022, the three American Indexes – the S&P 500 Index (S&P), the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), and the Nasdaq Composite Index (Nasdaq) – were trending downward since […]
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The week ending November 11, 2022
Items that may only interest or educate me …. … lest we forget, more Canadian rate hikes, American October CPI, US mid-term elections, semiconductors. Let’s begin … Thanks to surprisingly huge jobs gains in Canada in October (108,000 new jobs, more than ten times the number economists expected), analysts believe the Bank of Canada (BoC) […]
The week ending November 4, 2022
Items that may only interest or educate me …. This week: Canada’s Fall Economic Statement, latest US interest rate hike, UK interest rate hike, OPEC, world’s strongest dollar. Let’s begin. This week, Canada’s Fall Economic Statement showed Canadian finances have improved thanks to a windfall of revenue from the oil and gas energy and taxes […]
The week ending October 28, 2022
Items that may only interest me …. More interest rate hike news, a reversal of fortunes for the Energy and Technology sectors, the city of tomorrow, and lucky investing In Canada the Bank of Canada (BoC) hiked its benchmark interest for the sixth time this year, this time by 0. 5%, bringing the Canadian benchmark […]
The week ending October 21, 2022
Items that may only interest me …. Statistics Canada data released this week showed Canada’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) year over year inflation rate for September rose to 6.9%, decelerating from 7% in August (analysts were expecting 6.8%). That is the third successive month that the year over year CPI has dropped. As well, Canada’s […]
Third Quarter Update
Nothing quite like watching your portfolio go from green to red during a market decline. In my case, I get three times the pleasure as all three portfolios took a significant plunge. There is no sugar coating it, the third quarter was bad, but it pales in comparison when looking at the nine months January […]