Business headlines have recently been filled with negative news which begs the question – Can I avoid the potential upcoming downturn? To answer, it helps to examine history. The chart to the left shows market corrections and recoveries for the S&P 500 (top 500 US companies) over the last 77 years. On average, a market […]
It’s been another big year. In January the RBA rate was 0.25% (40+ year low) fueling asset price growth of everything incl 2nd hand cars. We had lockdowns, the AO Tennis controversy and multiple natural disasters making it near impossible to source quality tradespeople. We had extraordinary COVID Gov spending including payments to casual workers […]
June already and we’ve seen significant change in the 1st half of 2022 including a new Prime Minister, Ukraine war, supply shortages of almost everything, spiralling cost increases causing the highest inflation in decades, markets pricing a sharp jump in interest rates (from near zero) all combining to spark fears of a recession and causing […]