Items that may only interest or educate me …. No Santa rally, January effect … First, lets start off by saying good riddance to 2022 and a big welcome to 2023! So much for a Santa Claus rally to end 2022 on a positive note. Rather than the hoped for year end rally, the Grinch […]
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Weekly Update for the week ending December 16, 2022
Items that may only interest or educate me …. Santa rally, US CPI report, US interest change, EVs killing the AM radio stars … Will there be a Santa Claus rally in 2022? The stock markets typically get a boost in December’s holiday season thanks to upbeat retail/individual investors, many with year-end bonuses itching to […]
The Weekly Update for the week ending December 9, 2022
Items that may only interest or educate me …. Oil price caps, latest change to the Canadian interest rate, electric vehicles are not enough to offset the energy consumption of global population and economic growth, will there be a Nickel cartel, … This week marked the start of the Group of 7 (Canada, France, Germany, […]
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 […]