Hello Investors!
I hope everyone is staying safe and getting ready for an exciting 2025! This is my first blog of the new year, and I am excited to see what 2025 has to offer for investing. My condolences go out to all those people affected by the wildfires that are happening in LA. I am deeply sorry for your losses.
This week has been a real bummer for the stock market because everything is selling off due to the uncertainty of the economy. According to MarketWatch everyone is fearing the stock market because of inflation and fed rate-cut doubts. This is all because of the good jobs report of 256,000 jobs added in December. The only thing about reacting to a jobs report is that it still does not add to the economy if no one is actually working. You can add a million jobs, but if no one works then no money is being circulated into the economy. Not many people want to work certain jobs, especially since we got the Covid-19 scare that demolished many businesses and jobs. I will be looking forward to seeing what happens with the economy once Trump takes office in a couple of weeks. I do believe that we will have a few changes at the beginning of the year that will affect the economy. No one knows what Trump has on his agenda for 2025.
This paycheck I was able to buy two shares of Apple and one share of VOO which brings me three shares away from completing my Apple goal. I am actually still debating what stock I want to concentrate on after I complete my Apple goal. I might split my investments between Amazon and Nvidia depending on what their statistics are for the month. I do know eventually both of these companies will end up going up and splitting. It is just a matter of time before the stocks hit new highs. If you still have some extra cash on the side a high yield savings account is still giving out over three percent. I am still putting money into my Apple high yield savings account even though it went down. Always look for ways to make extra money on the side.
Until next time…Have a wonderful weekend and remember it is never too late to start investing!
Current Goals:
Individual Stock Account + Traditional IRA Account – 997/1000 shares of Apple Inc. (AAPL)
Individual Stock Account – 20/100 shares of Nvidia Corp. (NVDA)
Roth IRA Account – 74/100 shares of Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)
Future Goals:
Individual Stock Account – 41/100 shares of Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL)
Individual Stock Account – 22/100 shares of Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN)
Roth IRA Account – 58/100 shares of Vanguard Russell 1000 ETF (VONE)
My Investments for Friday, January 10, 2025
Combined Value of – $369,392.24
Apple Savings Account (3.90% APY) – $1090.56
Yen (Average Rate 145.38 USD/JPY) – JP¥335000
Individual Stock Account – $217,355.68
Starting buying power: $678.23
Buying power remaining: $206.81
Apple (AAPL) – Purchased 2 shares
Price per share – $235.7091 = $471.42
Dividends for January
No dividend payouts for January as of 01/10/2025
Roth IRA – $110,250.62
Starting buying power: $761.46
Buying power remaining: $226.67
Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) – Purchased 1 share
Price per share – $534.7899 = $534.79
Dividends for January
No dividend payouts for January as of 01/10/2025
Traditional IRA – $40,695.38
Starting buying power: $134.18
Buying power remaining: $134.18
No shares bought at this time
Next investment: 01/24/2025
Dividends for January
No dividend payouts for January as of 01/10/2025
It is never too late to start investing!