Musings of a 50+ year old boy – a halftime journey

I am amazed that it’s now already week 100. I started tracking the development of Covid numerically since I write my own blog on a weekly basis. I really wish that we are nearing the finishing line of this 2+ years nightmare as the whole world was turned inside out and upside down over the…

Spoken too soon in my blog last week, I thought that it was an opportunity to buy on dips after a terrible start to the year. But the financial markets continued on its bloodbath this week. All markets were down as technical levels melt like butter within the last 24 hours after holding on for…

This has been a hot topic for analysts for the last 1 month. There were various discussions that the inflation monster is finally here after waiting patiently for 13 years since the 2008 GFC (Global Financial Crisis). The markets were spooked last week when the Fed Dec minutes revealed a more hawkish stance than previously…

The beginning of the year has been filled with a lot of volatility in the markets. One moment it was happy days again, then the rest of the week we had blood all over the floor. The Dec Fed minutes was the turning point mid-week as it showed that they were more hawkish on rates…

2022 is upon us. The last 2 years have been weird for each and every soul on planet Earth. We literally compressed so many once in a hundred years events into the last 24 months thanks to Covid. I will spend this week reviewing my 2021 New Year resolutions and give myself a scorecard before…

‘Tis Christmas day today and a surreal Christmas week indeed… Strange things started to happen on 21 Dec and overwhelmed my whole family as things snowballed from one event to another. We had returned from our 2 weeks vacation on 17 Dec and started our 7 days of compulsory Covid ART testing. The first was…

Took some time off to spend 2 weeks travelling to Spain for a long-needed vacation with a group of good friends in the midst of the Omicron saga. It was personally an eye-opener for me to discover about the rich history of the country – how it become great for more than 300 years and…

Covid19 never ceases to surprise us as we have found out over the last 22 months. Every time we thought that we were coming nearer to the finishing line, the virus just moves the line further away from us. The last 36 hours was a madhouse in every asset class as the perfect storm was…