For the month of August, the DOW was up 388 points. Only a slight gain as investors try to determine how the latest COVID wave will impact economic activity. My investments gained $11,091 for the month. Dividends and interest amounted to $611, with $440 withdrawn to pay bills. Investments sold:

Shortly after I was “released” from my job in electronics manufacturing , AARP came out with an article titled “Workplace Age Discrimination Still Flourishes in America”. At the time of my employment release, I was 57 years old. During my employment, I never experienced any age discrimination. It was only

I was looking at a year-to-date chart of my investments today. I counted six times where the value of my account dropped by over $10,000. This has occurred over a 3 or 4 day period every 5 or 6 weeks. But, each time the investments have bounced back to a

The DOW has recovered from my last post a few weeks ago. Back then, the DOW was at 33,800. Today it is at 34,838, about 1000 points higher. It was as high as 35,144 on July 26th, but pandemic worries and unemployment concerns have pushed it down. My portfolio gained