Inflation continues to be the bad word as August, 2022 draws to a close and the schools open for another year here in Canada. Inflated prices puts more stress on a lot of people as supply and demand continues to drive the cost of the essentials up like groceries. I'm sure some prices go up "just because" the topic of inflation rules for now and for no other reason.
Other factors such as employees in unionised workplaces demand more of an increase when contract time rolls around. Other companies raise salaries slightly to keep employees so they add that onto their product prices.
Meanwhile, a lot of folks adjust their spending to keep rising expenses inline as best they can and put off extras and with the wired world, that means less Tech stuff, which affects quite a few Tech related stocks.
With the stocks, I continue to concentrate on oil/pipeline, banking, insurance and telecom stocks and September is a busy month for some of these Canadian stocks the have ex-dividend dates coming up.
With several stocks on the current BTSX portfolio, going ex-dividend in September
Too many to mention here but there are many sites that list ex-dividend dates per weekday, per week or month to receive cash distributions from stocks. One decent source is Investing.com and it's Dividend Calendar where one can filter by country and date range. My bank's investing resources also has a dividend calendar.
Folks can build their own calendars on spreadsheets. I'm more of a pen and paper guy so I buy large calendar books with monthly pages and add my stock's ex-dividend dates as well as those that are on my Watchlist.
Before adding a stock, I look at a stock's dividend history that several sites have recorded and I go to the source ... the stocks website for that investor information. 5 years back or more looking for no gaps or missed distributions. If so, I normally move on and forget that outfit.
Stocks that have a modest increase in distributions over time is what I like to see.
Overall, heading into September, the markets (and most likely crypto) are waiting for an idea of what the next interest rate hike moves from the Feds will be like. A lower percentage or the same as the last hike.
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