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 […]
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The week ending July 15, 2022
Electric Vehicle sales reach tipping point Electric Vehicles (EV) surpassed the magical 5% mark of the total auto market this past quarter, according to a report from Cox Automotive. Why is 5% important you ask? Well, I will tell you. Historically, once a product reaches 5% of a total market it reaches the tipping point […]
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 24, 2022
Inflation – what is it good for? In the last few weeks, inflation has made its way from the Business section of the newspaper to the front pages. Almost weekly we hear the price of gas and groceries has gotten more and more expensive. The price of gas is up nearly 50% in the last […]
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 […]