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 August 19, 2022
Spare change …. Canada’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation for July was 7.6%, down from June’s 8.1%, but still well higher than the Bank of Canada’s target of 2%. As in the US last week, the fall in the price of gasoline was the main driver in the lower CPI. However, when volatile components, such […]
The week ending June 3, 2022
Last week, I started discussing my process for identifying companies I would like to own, albeit a very, very, small piece of the company. I created a 4-stage process to eliminate companies from consideration relatively quickly while going through the process. These stages of the process are: Stage 1 – Radar Check Stage 2 – […]
The week ending May 27, 2022
“Sell in May and go away,” refers to the tendency of stocks to perform worse in May through October than during the rest of the year. I hope that is not the case this year given the decline in the stock markets. The S&P 500 Index and Dow Jones Industrial Average are both in market […]
The week ending May 20, 2022
Investing v Gambling Just when I thought the markets may have bottomed, they prove I have no idea what is going to happen day to day. 😊 Recently I was asked what the difference between investing and gambling is. As an investor, this intuitively seemed obvious but as I thought about it, I realized to […]
The week ending May 13, 2022
If the markets were Clubber Lang, their prediction for 2022 would have been “Pain!”. And so far, pain it has been with the S&P 500 off to its worst start to a year since 1939. Over $10 trillion has been erased from American stocks alone. The Nasdaq Composite Index alone is down 25% in 2022 […]