Intra-year declines in the equity markets are a common occurrence. At the risk of stating the obvious, stocks never only go up always. In any given year, stocks decline significantly though the course of the year for any number of reasons but end up the year with a positive total return. Stomach-churning volatility can shake …
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Stocks tend to yield a positive return over the long term. This is true in many equity markets of the world including Canada. From 1924 thru 2020, Canadian stocks as represented by S&P/TSX Composite Index have earned investors a positive return 73% of the time. To put it another way, positive years trump negative returns. Click …
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Copper is one of the most important metals in the world. Copper is also one of the earliest metals used and perfected in ancient times. The country of Chile is the world’s largest copper producer and exporter. Click to enlarge Source: Visual Capitalist
A correction is defined as a decline of 10% from recent market highs. Bear markets are market declines of 20% or more. Equity markets go through plenty of market corrections over the years. But very few of the corrections actually turn into bear markets. The following chart shows that since 1974 there have been many …
I came across the below infographic on US inflation since the 1960s. Last year when inflation started creeping up the Fed said repeatedly it was only “transitory”. Now it has become permanent and they are unable to get it under control. Raising interest rates a little bit is not going to help. With sky high …
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