by Arnold Joe
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It was a big day in oil today as the price dropped over $4 to $126. It wasn’t the weekly US oil inventory that caused the drop as the volumes dropped almost 10 million barrels from the previous week; this was the largest drop since the 2004 hurricane season. The drop in inventories was […]
In many parts of the world such as the U.S. and just about any country that manages its currency (e.g. China, Latin America, Russia, OPEC nations etc) have seen inflation continue to climb. With inflation being so high and interest rates being low, the returns available on some fixed income investments (e.g. bonds) have a […]
I bought some more Nexen Inc (T-NXY, N-NXY) an oil and gas company at $39.40 after the International Energy Agency (IEA) said it plans on reducing the forecast of oil supplies after studying depletion rates on the world’s 400 biggest oil wells. Apparently the revisions (which represents an important change in methodology) to the […]
Should North American investors be investing based on an economic environment that is recessionary or inflationary?
As mentioned previously, the US economy seems to be in a bull market as bad news (such as housing or employment stats) results in rising stock markets. If the market responds to bad news by pushing up the stock […]
Recap:
Dow was up 60 and TSX was up 112. I’m not really sure why the Dow was up other than Johnson and Johnson posted okay results; I guess investors took it as a positive sign that the market woes hadn’t infected all sectors of the economy. TSX was up probably because oil hit another record […]
Recap:
The Dow Jones and TSX were both down 256 and 226 points on Friday respectively probably the result of General Electric posting lower profits q/q and also lowering guidance for the year. This comes only a short time after the company had affirmed guidance in March. Markets are nervous because of the implications that weakness […]
