Exclusive: Qualcomm has explored buying pieces of Intel chip design business reuters.com/technology/qua…

Broadcom shares slump as revenue target disappoints investors hoping for big AI boost reuters.com/technology/bro…

US job growth misses expectations in August reuters.com/markets/us/us-…

Findependence Hub: Is it reasonable to have irrationally high return expectations? #investmentreturns #stocks via John De Goey findependencehub.com/is-it-reasonab…

Thanks, Jonathan Chevreau for allowing me to draw attention to this important concern.

Canadian #ETFs “took a breather” last month, but still took in a healthy $4.2B in inflows, the National Bank Financial Markets August Canadian ETF Flows report states. For more key developments in the CDN and U.S. #ETF markets: tinyurl.com/fmw7rj77

Wall Street lower after mixed jobs data reuters.com/markets/us/fut…

The problem with rate cuts: Big dividends are going, going ... theglobeandmail.com/investing/mark…

Jonathan Chevreau John De Goey My own financial plan is currently based on after-costs portfolio average returns of inflation+2.5% for the rest of my life. So, I agree with John that others assume returns that are too high. But "danger for investors in the second half of 2024" sounds like a prediction.

"There is longstanding evidence that higher-cost active investment strategies actually fail to outperform cheaper strategies such as passive index investing and that product cost certainly does matter." John De Goey #InvestmentStrategy #investing

Making sense of the markets this week: September 8, 2024 moneysense.ca/save/investing… via MoneySense MillionDollarJourney

Trump sentencing in hush-money case postponed till after election trib.al/zRKnrUU

'The time has come': Why the August jobs report keeps the Fed on track for a 25 basis point rate cut yahoo.trib.al/IKk0s53 by Jennifer Schonberger

Nvidia’s stock is flirting with its worst week in two years. What comes next? trib.al/k9sjiGC

Nvidia stock tanks 5% amid rough week for chip stocks yahoo.trib.al/D56FHyR by Ines Ferre

As interest rates fall, investors are dancing with dividend stocks again theglobeandmail.com/investing/educ…

I really hope it doesn’t need to be said, but swapping a 5.5% GIC upon maturity for a 5.5% yielding dividend stock is odd. 2 very different products with different risk and return characteristics, other than potentially the yield (which is taxed differently).

Dow and Nasdaq carry conforming 400-point declines toward closing bell trib.al/fbXaOmP

S&P 500 suffers its worst week since early 2023 — live coverage trib.al/XOkU3fk

"We're seeing some pretty clear signs that the economy is slowing down and the labor market is softening," Fort Pitt Capital Group's Dan Eye says. "It's really important for investors to take a step back and realize that this is kind of the last leg of the normalization process."