2019 was quite the year for Large-Cap Technology. Our benchmark, the SPDR Technology Sector ETF, $XLK gained 50% during the year, nearly doubling the performance of the next best sector, Financials ($XLF), as well as the S&P 500 itself, both of which returned about 30%. Many of the analyst notes and financial headlines I see […]
Cannabis Sell-off Burns Out
Investors in the Cannabis Industry had a rough go at it in 2019 as our benchmark, the Horizons Medical Marijuana Life Sciences ETF ($HMMJ), traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange ($TSX), fell by roughly 37% during the year, compared to a 29% and 19% annual return for the S&P 500 and TSX Composite. Also included […]
2019 Stock Market Performance
With 2019 in the books, let’s take a look at how stocks performed this year. 2019 was undoubtedly a good year for US Equities with all four major indices sporting above-average returns. The Nasdaq was the strongest index with a gain of 37.87%, marking its best year since 2009. The S&P 500 also had an […]
Asian Tigers Make New Highs
The historic performance of US stocks in 2019 is all the buzz heading into year-end. But it’s not only US Equities that deserve attention as indexes all over the world have been making new highs recently. Last week, we discussed the strength from European Equities in our post A Trip Around Europe and today we are […]
A Trip Around Europe
I was on my Honeymoon in Europe recently. We visited Paris, London, Brussels and Amsterdam and saw some truly amazing sites. It also prompted me to find some equally fantastic charts of European assets – which I only looked at during travel time, on the trains and planes, of course. But seriously, as someone […]
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