Canadian Personal Finance Blog

Archive for November 16th, 2007

Some random ideas for the end of an interesting week:

• The Canadian dollar has plummeted back to parity with the Yankee dollar, which may be a good thing at the end of it all. Guess I’m glad I follow Larry McD’s advise to pick up some VTI when the dollar was at $1.10 .
• I got my “new to me” car, which is very nice to drive. Yes I could have gone to the states and maybe got it cheaper, but I’d rather give my mechanic the business for now.
• Stats Can talked about leading indicators being up by 0.1% in October which shows a slowing in the Canadian Economy, but still positive growth, so that is good too.
• Is Cross Border car shopping affecting new car sales in Canada? Not sure, but we shall see.
• Christmas shopping explosion should begin next week with American Thanksgiving being a little earlier than usual as well. Remember what Christmas is, and try not to turn it into an excuse to spend money.

Have a great weekend all!