Kicking Off 2025 After wrapping up a disappointing December and saying goodbye to 2024, it’s a great time to look ahead to 2025 with fresh optimism. January is when many of us take stock (pun intended 😉) of our portfolios, set new financial goals, and strategize for the year to come (OK, maybe not too […]
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Weekly Update for the week ending June 21, 2024
Since I have been doing this investing blog, I have often read of various central banks’ target of a 2% rate of inflation. This is the figure that the Bank of Canada, the US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, and other central banks often site. It got me to wondering why 2%? Was it arbitrary […]
Weekly Update for the week ending February 9, 2024
This past week, with a lull in economic news, corporate earnings captured the spotlight – and they certainly delivered. Fueling investor optimism further were the revised US Consumer Price Index numbers for December, indicating lower inflation than initially reported. This shift has led investors to speculate about the potential for the Federal Reserve to lower […]