Money and Finance
What a week for the markets and oil! The S&P 500 added almost 70 pts or 3.5% and closed just shy of 2,000. The S&P 500 is now down just 2.2% since the start of 2016. Oil climbed higher throughout the week as well ending the week above $36 with a 5% gain on Friday alone.
While it's great to see the markets rebounding and my various portfolios climbing along with it, the thing that really gets me going is seeing dividends hit my accounts and getting raised. This past week two of the companies I own gave me a pay raise which is awesome. That's now 11 increases among my holdings thus far this year which is absolutely wonderful. Especially when you add in that I had to take a pay cut from my day job last year, but the majority of the companies I own continue to grow their dividends.
Read more »
- Weekly Roundup - March 12, 2016
Despite some rocky moments during the week the S&P 500 closed higher with just over a 1% gain for the week. That makes 4 straight weeks of gains after the first month and half saw went almost straight down. Even after all of the disruption in...
- Weekly Roundup - February 13, 2016
The craziness of the markets right now doesn't show any signs of ending. Last week saw the S&P 500 have big fluctuations and was down 3.7% at it's worst from the close of last week. Then came Friday with a huge positive day where the...
- Weekly Roundup - February 6, 2016
Another week down and another crazy week for the stock markets. The S&P 500 had the following returns this past week -0.04%, -1.87%, +0.50%, +0.15% and -1.85%. All told it worked out to a 3.10% decline for the week. It appears that January's...
- Weekly Roundup - March 29, 2014
I've been a bit absent the past week or so and even missed my normal weekly roundup post last weekend. Never fear though I'm back and have a new installment of the roundup. My FI Portfolio has been performing great the last two weeks and I...
- Weekly Roundup - March 30, 2013
Where has the first 3 months of this year gone? Seems like just yesterday I was having to get used to writing 2013 instead of 2012 and now one quarter of the year is almost done. This past week was pretty good. Work went really smooth although I...
Money and Finance
Weekly Roundup - March 5, 2016
While it's great to see the markets rebounding and my various portfolios climbing along with it, the thing that really gets me going is seeing dividends hit my accounts and getting raised. This past week two of the companies I own gave me a pay raise which is awesome. That's now 11 increases among my holdings thus far this year which is absolutely wonderful. Especially when you add in that I had to take a pay cut from my day job last year, but the majority of the companies I own continue to grow their dividends.
Read more »
- Weekly Roundup - March 12, 2016
Despite some rocky moments during the week the S&P 500 closed higher with just over a 1% gain for the week. That makes 4 straight weeks of gains after the first month and half saw went almost straight down. Even after all of the disruption in...
- Weekly Roundup - February 13, 2016
The craziness of the markets right now doesn't show any signs of ending. Last week saw the S&P 500 have big fluctuations and was down 3.7% at it's worst from the close of last week. Then came Friday with a huge positive day where the...
- Weekly Roundup - February 6, 2016
Another week down and another crazy week for the stock markets. The S&P 500 had the following returns this past week -0.04%, -1.87%, +0.50%, +0.15% and -1.85%. All told it worked out to a 3.10% decline for the week. It appears that January's...
- Weekly Roundup - March 29, 2014
I've been a bit absent the past week or so and even missed my normal weekly roundup post last weekend. Never fear though I'm back and have a new installment of the roundup. My FI Portfolio has been performing great the last two weeks and I...
- Weekly Roundup - March 30, 2013
Where has the first 3 months of this year gone? Seems like just yesterday I was having to get used to writing 2013 instead of 2012 and now one quarter of the year is almost done. This past week was pretty good. Work went really smooth although I...