Category Archives: Updates

Do you like receiving surprises? A surprise gift or a surprise birthday party? I think most people like the former but not so much the latter. The markets are similar in they do not react well to surprises, as what happened this past week. I was reminded the stock markets do not like inflation, they […]

Thursday evening, I told a friend I thought Friday would be a good day for the markets because they had ended Wednesday with some upward momentum after bouncing up and down earlier in the week. Boy, was I wrong! Friday morning, I started getting direct message alerts that a number of the stocks in the […]

Connections. Its amazing events are connected to other events. While Covid-19 is still present in North America, it has already caused one European country to go into lockdown to stop the spread of the virus (Austria), and at least one other European country to consider a lockdown (Germany). The connection between Covid-19 and travel stocks […]

It was not a good week for traditional conglomerates as commercial break ups spread across the world. Earlier in the week, 129-year-old General Electric announced it was splitting into three units centred around aviation, healthcare, and energy. In Japan, industrial giant Toshiba stated it would be splitting into three companies focused on infrastructure, semiconductors, and […]

It was a busy week with over twenty companies across the three portfolios reporting their quarterly earnings (this coming week is worse). Lots of press releases to read and sift through the spin, but overall, most of the companies are doing fine. One of the benefits of a buy and hold philosophy is I do […]

This past week wrapped up a good October for all the portfolios and the 4 leading North American markets. This week saw a number of companies present Quarterly Reports, indicating how they performed during the July through September period, as well as provide insight on how their plans going forward. Without further ado, lets see […]