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The week ending August 5, 2022

Spare Change… Another busy week of earnings reports with 21 companies reporting for the period April 1 – June 30, 2022. These three months are commonly referred to as the second quarter but depending on when a company’s fiscal year starts, this can be the first, third or fourth quarter. For example, Skyworks Solutions reported […]

The week ending July 8, 2022

Ch, ch, changes After some feedback, I have decided to break the Weekly Update into two separate parts. Going forward, the weekly market and portfolio update will now be a separate post from the opening commentary. The weekly update content will remain the same (unless feedback suggests otherwise) and continue to be posted at the […]

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. […]

The week ending March 18, 2022

March 14 – March 18, 2022 It was an ominous start to the week when the Nasdaq 100 Index closed in bear market territory (down more than 20% from its peak in November). It was the first time in three years that any of the US Indexes had fallen into a bear market. Heck, even […]