My apologies, but first half results will have a one week delay due to some dividends not crediting on Friday. These are primarily Canadian held in my taxable account – I’m thinking it’s a tax processing issue as the Canadian stocks in my IRA credited as normal. I do know the S&P beat me for the month but I’m slightly ahead for the year. Beyond that … there’s always next week.
This week, the President attended the G20 and had the anticipated meeting with Xi Jinping. The preliminary reporting by Eunice Yoon, CNBC’s Beijing correspondent was: (June 29, 2019 tweet)
- By my tally, so far China gets:
- -no new tariffs
- -access to US tech for Huawei
- -better visa treatments for Chinese students
- -truce on tradewar (resumption of talks)
- US gets:
- -bigger purchases for farmers
My initial take was that China came out ahead due to the fact that their pork production has issues with a swine flu epidemic – meaning I think they used a weakness to their advantage. They probably had limited options. The Daily Beast concurs (although a little more stridently). But the futures market appears to be rallying – perhaps because it wasn’t worse? As Monday dawns here I’ll be looking at this a little closer.
Meanwhile, I’ll (finally) be making some moves in July, selling three issues – primarily dividend cut related. Since one of my core holdings is being acquired, a restructure of my top 36 is also in order. So my expectation is more than normal activity is on tap with a slight decrease in the number of my holdings (not the value) as well.
With it being a holiday shortened trading week in the US, I hope you enjoy and have a safe 4th!
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