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July 2009 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth
What a difference one month has made!
Given how much better the overall stock market has performed in July (the Dow up 8.6%, the S&P 7.4%, and the Nasdaq 7.8%), I expected a good month for our net worth. However, I am very surprised, and pleased, after finishing the calculation that not only it increased [...]
June 2009 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth
After three straight months of robust growth of our net worth, which added a total of $148,420.12 to our paper wealth, the gain in June was a little disappointing. Nonetheless, I am still very happy to see that the positive trend has been extended into the forth month, even though the stock market didn’t exactly [...]
A New Day, A New Job
Today is my first day at this new job.
The job is from the second employer that I was interviewed a few weeks ago. It’s a division of the same employer who offered my very first job 9 years ago and does business mostly with the government. I got offers from the first two employers rather [...]
House and Job Update
After some delay, we finally put our house on the market.
This afternoon, we called one of the agents we talked with before and signed all the paperwork with him so we can get the process started. Originally, the plan was to list the house at the beginning of the month, but now it’s the middle [...]
Strep, House, and Job
There are just so many things going on recently that I wasn’t able to find time to post anything.
First, our 4-year old was diagnosed with Strep last Thursday. She started to cough a little bit on Tuesday, then woke with a mild fever on Thursday. Since New Jersey is one of the hardest hit states [...]
May 2009 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth
May 2009 turned to be another solid month for our net worth as the stock market recorded its third straight monthly gain. After reaching the lows on March 9, which now seems to be the bottom of the stock market, the Dow has gained nearly 30% as of May 31, the Nasdaq almost 40%, and [...]
We’re Moving
Not now, but in about two to three months.
We have been living in New Jersey for the past 13 years, moved a few times, but always in the state. Probably because of having been here for so long, we kind of like where we live. We think we are going to stay in NJ [...]
April 2009 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth
On top of the 9% gain in March, our net worth grew strongly in April, due to the robust rebound in the stock market, even though we took out cash last month to pay taxes. Without house and vehicle related items, our net worth at the end of April showed a gain of $58,504.90 to [...]
March 2009 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth
It seems we had a pretty good month in March. For the first time this year, our net worth actually went up by a rather significant amount with the help from the big rally in the stock market. Excluding house and cars, we had a total of $486,449.83 on March 31, an increase of $40,196.76, [...]
February 2009 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth
I was very surprised when I finished calculating our net worth at the end of February. With major stock indices losing more than 10% for the month, our net worth, with everything considered, only saw a moderate loss of $5,955.99 (1.32%) over a month ago to a total of $446,280.10 on February 28th.
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