Items that may only interest or educate me …. Canadian interest rate pause, global central banks, impact of US rate increases, Canadian GDP stalls, share buybacks, … Analysts believe the BoC will hold Canada’s benchmark interest rate at 4.5% for the remainder of the year. Economic data has shown Canadian inflation has been heading downward […]
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Tailwinds (Good), Headwinds (Bad)
Tailwinds and Headwinds were originally posted in the Weekly Updates for May 6 and May 13, respectively. When I originally wrote about these two topics in May 2022, the three American Indexes – the S&P 500 Index (S&P), the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), and the Nasdaq Composite Index (Nasdaq) – were trending downward since […]
Look to the future for opportunities
Back at the start of the year, in January 2022, financial analysts were warning, if not screaming, that inflation and higher interest rates were coming. Prices were rising and it was going to cost more to pay off debt, be it loans, mortgages, or corporate debt. That we knew should have planned accordingly (I did […]
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 July 1, 2022
First half review After two years of the stock markets being dominated by Covid-19 related issues (inflation, supply chain, etc.), the first half of 2022 was the bumpiest first half ever for the markets. The four major North American Indexes look like the Canadian flag – lots of red. According to Bloomberg data, over $9 […]