Certainly uncertain I had planned on opening this week’s post on the market’s ongoing slide and its impact on the three Portfolios but an event on the other side of the world gave the global markets a scare. That event was the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Let’s look at how the uncertainty and then certainty […]
Category Archives: Updates
The week ending February 18, 2022
When I got back into investing in 2018, I thought I would never buy shares of an oil come as the green revolution was underway and I’m very optimistic about renewable energy and electric vehicles. All I knew about oil companies was the price of oil had fallen from over USD$ 100 a barrel in […]
The week ending February 11, 2022
It was an interesting week to see how global actions impact the stock market. After an initial dip, the stock market headed upward with Energy and Technology stocks leading the way. At the end of the week technology stocks had retreated, and energy stocks, after a mid week lull, headed up at the end of […]
The week ending February 4, 2022
As the saying goes, fool me once…. Is the rise of the market this week a genuine rise or a bear market rally (a brief rise in stock prices when the overall market has been falling)? I find myself feeling like Charlie Brown trying to decide if Lucy will pull the ball away at the […]
The week ending January 28, 2022
The market can be a cruel place. Rising interest rates have hammered the stock market this year – tech stocks in particular, which become less attractive when interest rates go higher. The technology heavy Nasdaq Composite Index has fallen nearly 15% so far this year and fallen into a correction, wiping out nearly $3 trillion […]
The week ending January 21, 2022
Yes Virginia, the market does go down. After nearly two years of relentless gains, this week we were reminded that share prices, even those of the biggest companies, do in fact go down. If you started investing after the start of the pandemic, then welcome to the ‘exciting’ part of investing. Friday capped a dismal […]