Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: International stocks have been doing well for the past week, you know, is this on your radar? And should I be looking to buy these? Tom Vaughan: Yeah, international stocks have had a good five day run here actually really outperformed the stock market here. I watch international all the time, I
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody, welcome to Tuesday, the S&P 500 was down 1.8% today, and really kind of interesting what’s going on right now in terms of the pricing of the market, if you look really close, if we look at, for example, the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index, which has the ticker symbol
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: With the changing market, what are you investing in? Like with this current market? Tom Vaughan: Yeah, this current market, right now, I’m really looking strongly towards having a very, very diversified portfolio for starters. And because I think one of the things that that I find really fascinating is how sold
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: I have some large, taxable gains on some positions, and they’re not doing as well as the market and kind of poorly underperforming. What should I do about these positions? Tom Vaughan: Yeah, this has been a really common thing, especially in the taxable accounts that we have, in 2020. You know,
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: So I’d like to start the show though with a summary of what I saw happening in the market this week. I’m actually going to talk about kind of a year to date thing as a summary, because there’s some pieces here that are crossing over quite strongly between these two weeks.
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: Are there any kind of New Year’s resolutions that I can do for my finances? Tom Vaughan: Oh, yeah, well, one thing I mean, there’s a lot of different things, a lot of different categories. But one thing that I am doing is I have pieces that we bought in 2020, that
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Hello, everybody. Hello, everybody, welcome to Thursday, the S&P 500 was down 1.4% today, and actually the NASDAQ was down two and a half percent today. So one of the things that’s happening right now is that when the Federal Reserve Vice Chairman nominee was speaking in front of Congress today, talking
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Everybody, welcome to Wednesday, the S&P 500 was point 3%. Today, and it was a little bit surprising because the news for the day was very high inflation number of 7% on the CPI year over year, so this December that just passed versus the December of 2020. And so that’s a
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: I want to add some Cryptocurrency each of my portfolio, should I be looking to pick individual coins that I think will be winners? Or should I try and buy a basket of coins? And if I get a basket, how many coins should I get? And then how should I, you
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: Why does inflation makes stocks go down? And does it affect different kinds of types of stock differently? Tom Vaughan: Yeah, so the big theory behind inflation, making stocks go down. First of all, understand that it doesn’t always make stocks go down. It’s really high inflation or quick inflation, that makes