Items that may educate or interest only me …. Thanks to higher interest rates and slowing revenues, many companies are starting to feel the pinch of inflation. Higher interest rates are causing consumers to cutback, and even target what they purchase. According to Howard Marks, of Oaktree Capital, the combination of inflation and higher interest […]
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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 […]
Look to the future for opportunities
Back at the start of the year, in January 2022, financial analysts were warning, if not screaming, that inflation and higher interest rates were coming. Prices were rising and it was going to cost more to pay off debt, be it loans, mortgages, or corporate debt. That we knew should have planned accordingly (I did […]
The week ending June 24, 2022
Inflation – what is it good for? In the last few weeks, inflation has made its way from the Business section of the newspaper to the front pages. Almost weekly we hear the price of gas and groceries has gotten more and more expensive. The price of gas is up nearly 50% in the last […]
The week ending June 17, 2022
You would think a combination of a surging economy, low unemployment, strong corporate earnings, and people with money in their pockets would be enough to calm an unnerved market. You would be wrong! Inflation and the fight to drive inflation back to the desired 2% – 3% level continues to send the markets into a tailspin. […]