Thanks. My view: Behind all the noise are some solid growth statistics across a number of markets across the world. We will see this in the US Retail reports coming up this week. Example: JC Penney went up today on a down day for markets. They report Thursday. Ultimately markets always come back to the data.

The 56 percent comes from a Facebook friend who once tried to spruik one of his pet projects asking "Which of your investments has done 56%?". As you can see I have a few - though the stocks side is a bit short of new ideas with nothing making 56% that was bought in the last 12 months right now. It's a game but it works for me as a way to step back each month. Takes about an hour to make the spreadsheet. I update prices every day automatically where I can and manually each week for the others. .