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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 September 16, 2022

Fractional shares…. Just when supply chain problems were slowly being eliminated, rail workers in the US threatened to go on strike. Fortunately, a deal between the major U.S. railroads and the railroad unions was reached to avert a work stoppage. This was such a crucial deal for the US economy that even President Biden took […]

The week ending April 29, 2022

Atrox mensis For those not up on their Latin, that is ‘a terrible month’, or so Google tells me. And indeed, it was. Coming into April, I had such high hopes for the markets. So much for history. April has historically been the best performing month for stocks but this year the S&P 500 Index […]