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Making sense of the markets this week: April 23, 2023This week, Cut the Crap Investing founder Dale Roberts shares financial headlines and offers context for Canadian investors.

We’re moving in slow motion

Regular “Making sense” columnist Kyle Prevost is off for the next couple of weeks. I’m more than happy to sit in the captain’s chair once again and make sense of the markets. 

Let’s kick things off with a look at the inflation fight and the state of the economy. 

I wrote the final column of 2022 for “Making sense of the markets.” That post included a look back at the year, and it offered a look forward (yes, guesses) about what 2023 might bring. 

As my December column showed, there were many investable trends that were easy to identify, and they played out as expected. As I had offered, energy stocks and commodities ruled in an inflationary environment. As outlined on my Cut The Crap Investing blog, I moved to an energy dividend approach, and I’m glad I did. I replaced the price risk with dividend health risk…

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