Last week on the Sunday Reads, the Fed pivot had turned into a divot. This week the markets continued to fall, pricing in more rate hikes and earnings headwinds and recession risk. The S&P 500 was down by 2.8% this week. The tech-heavy Nasdaq was down 3.8%. Canadian stocks were down 2.3%. Inflation continues to […]
Big Canadian banks, value stocks rule and the big Fed divot on the Sunday Reads.
It was an exciting week in the markets. Most of the big Canadian banks reported earnings, with mixed results. That said, the Canadian consumer and banks are holding up quite well considering the economic tremors that many feel. The earnings represent the state of the nation for the period ending June 30. Ongoing rate hikes […]
The Fed pivot turned into a divot.
It was a more than interesting week. Not much mattered until Jerome Powell (the U.S. Federal Reserve Chair) delivered comments on Friday. He came clean. Or at least he helped to reverse the delusion created by stock market enthusiasts that the Fed would ‘pivot’ and reverse course on the market-unfriendly series of rate hikes. Rates […]
Stocks are the undisputed champion, on the Sunday Reads.
As I had offered in the wealth accumulation video, stocks and real estate are the undisputed heavyweight champs. And sure that is my personal bias or experience showing. In this Sunday Reads, the Findependence Hub offers up some interesting stats on stocks for offense and bonds for defense. This week, we also had some signs […]
Everybody’s guessing on the Sunday Reads.
There’s a common event I keep witnessing. Everybody’s guessing. And that is, the stock markets and bond markets keep guessing and take the liberty to change their mind(s) as well. We’re in an economic transition period. And we simply don’t know in which economic regime we will land. But the markets keep guessing based on […]
Happy Canada Day Dividends.
It’s the Canada Day long weekend and we Canucks certainly have a lot to be thankful for. We live in one of the best countries on the planet. Sure, we’ll complain here and there, sometimes to the point where we are even forced to write a letter (Canadian defiance). It’s not a perfect country or […]