Black Monday

[Joshuatree]

oil on a tear 90 pivot test ?

And Natural Gas dropped way back to re 2020 levels ,!?

[bull....]

And Natural Gas dropped way back to re 2020 levels ,!?

might be why my woodside shares are not performing yet ? US oil shares doing well though

[bull....]

seems nz gold investors are cashing in

Kiwis take advantage of record gold prices, cash in investments

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/...in-investments

[Joshuatree]

might be why my woodside shares are not performing yet ? US oil shares doing well though

Yeah mine too, X divi,an impairment,environmental activists,out of favour and gas prices,where's the bottom

[winner69]

Hey bull what’s going on …US markets down, US 10 year up, gold up and oil up

[Daytr]

And Natural Gas dropped way back to re 2020 levels ,!?

Biden's ban on Nat Gas exports has decimated the price which has worked well to curb inflation, but will cause production cuts over time.

Hey bull what’s going on …US markets down, US 10 year up, gold up and oil up

Looks like the market is reading into delays in the Fed lowering interest rates, so dollar weakened, equities down. Tesla had a poor quarter...

[bull....]

Hey bull what’s going on …US markets down, US 10 year up, gold up and oil up

tax time us markets this mth.
are you selling your gold bar door stops ?

[causecelebre]

US markets are well overdue for a healthy retracement

[winner69]

Stats nz that the pace of jobs growth continues to slow – up 2.1% on a year ago and now clearly fallen below the rate of growth in the working-age population (up 3.1% on a year ago)l

Suggests unemployment rate will go up

[Bjauck]

Thank you.

But, I'm not 100% in the US. I just use the S&P500 as a rough "am I doing better than the index" guide.
ie, is the effort actually worth it

I'm invested in five countries and 12 different market segments.
Although that is a false picture because some of the companies are themselves across dozens of countries and markets.

I have also managed to miss all of Nvidia and Microsoft, most of Google and Amazon and lots of other good companies.

I would have thought a world index like one of the Vanguard etfs would be more appropriate as a benchmark. Certainly your portfolio produced a good return, especially if it included your fixed interest investments and cash. I use a blended benchmark of Ishares global, ishares s&p500, NZX50.