Are you making any financial changes because of today's news from the markets?

[CBC News]

Canadian and U.S. stocks fell sharply at the opening of trading Monday as the bankruptcy filing by U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and cascading fears about the stability of other major financial institutions rattled global markets.
In Toronto, the S&P/TSX composite index was down 402.59 points to 12,366.99 within minutes of the beginning of the trading day.
On Wall Street, shares of financial services companies led the market's dive and stoked worries about the economy and the corporate profit outlook.
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Are you making any financial changes because of today's news from the markets?


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[darkbeaver]

No, we believe like you do at CBC that it's better not to pay to much attention to it in case it affects consumer confidence just before whatshisnames birthday, and of course we wouldn't want Mr Harpers elevation to Governor of the newest state in the disunion overshadowed in any way by something as mundane as another inconvienient global depression.

 

[Risus]

No, it won't make any difference to me...

 

[Unforgiven]

We've been cautiously building a short term investment portion so that we can take advantage of the situation once things have bottomed out. Still most of our investments are long term and we don't fret much about fluctuations having a negative over all affect on the portfolio.