Congrats on the purchase! I find your art endeavors very interesting. Good to know about the schwab check, whenever I sold I have wired to my bank account which takes a couple days.
Thanks...RG, Lori, and TireSmoke. YES....an American painter RG. I dont collect any painters or artists that are outside the USA. Sounds like my stocks....LOL. Since we collect American Impressionistic and Western Art.....they tend to all be American. Although many, many, of the early American painters were immigrants from Europe that came here to paint in Texas, California, and the West. And many of the USA born artists from the late 1800's and into the 1950's.....did extensive training in France and Europe at places like the Académie Julian and the other art ateliers and academy's in France. For example..... there is one artist that we collect that was part of the original founders of the Impressionistic artist colony in Giverny France during the time Monet was painting there. A British painter that married an American while in France and than after five years in Giverny immigrated to the USA where he painted for the rest of his life. There were many Americans painting in Giverny in the early days....in fact it was mostly a group of young Americans that founded the artist colony there. HERE is some history: "After the end of the American Civil War in 1865, many American artists made the trip to Paris to discover the latest trends in European painting. They admired the collections of the Louvre, visited the exhibitions of the Salon, and trained in the studios of great academic painters. At the end of the 1880s, when the impressionist exhibitions were coming to their end, the works of Monet, Renoir, Degas began to interest art collectors in the United States. In France, young American artists were turning to the practice of outdoor painting. Each summer, they left Paris and its art academies for the countryside, where they gathered in villages like Barbizon, Grez-sur-Loing, Pont-Aven or Giverny, which had become Claude Monet’s residence in 1883. Painting outdoors in Giverny From 1885 until the First World War, many Americans frequented Giverny. They were charmed by the village, its inhabitants, and by the dynamism of the community of artists who eventually gathered there. On the banks of the Epte, in the fields and hills which surround the village, the painters experimented together with the bright colours and fragmented brushwork of Impressionism. From 1887, the Baudy family, who ran the village grocery and café, offered rooms to these visitors. The Baudy hotel soon boasted studios for painters, tennis courts, and a menu adapted to American taste. It also hosted numerous parties. John Leslie Breck, and Theodore Robinson, who were among the first American artists to visit Giverny, befriended Monet, as did Lilla Cabot Perry and her family, who regularly rented a house close to Monet’s own between 1889 and 1909. Towards a new Impressionism Some artists lived for several years in Giverny, like Californian painter Guy Rose, or married artists Mary Fairchild and Frederick MacMonnies. Theodore Butler settled permanently in the village after his marriage to one of Monet’s stepdaughters, Suzanne Hoschedé. His continued presence contributed to the cohesion of the American colony." ETC, etc, etc. https://www.mdig.fr/en/discover-the...hemes/the-american-artists-colony-at-giverny/
Here is a typical example of an artist that I like....Dawson Dawson Watson.....an English artist that was part of the original artist colony at Giverny and than traveled around and ended up painting in Texas for the rest of his life. I find this little BIO fascinating. I like all the research of history and provenance and the thrill of the hunt in finding and documenting significant paintings that are......"lost to history". It reminds me of the movie....The Red Violin. I have some paintings that I have spent hundreds of hours researching and documenting history and provenance. I use libraries, university archives, Art Associations, etc, etc, etc.....and ESPECIALLY ......old digital newspaper archives to find information and document history of paintings. It can be very frustrating.....and obsessive......when you are so close but need that one last bit of information that is hidden in some newspaper article from the late 1800's or early 1900's. I subscribe to a number of historic newspaper archives that basically let me search EVERY newspaper that existed in the USA. FROM GIVERNY TO SAN ANTONIO Dawson Dawson-Watson Biography https://dawsondawsonwatson.wordpress.com/
OH YES.....the markets. Looks like we are mostly green in the big averages early in the day today. HERE is the open. S&P 500 rises as Wall Street tries to rebound from sell-off https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/stock-market-today-live-updates.html NICE.
Smokie touched on this yesterday....here is a bit more. Tesla Q3 earnings miss analyst expectations, stock drops despite robotaxi expansion plans 'We are being very cautious about the deployment,' CEO Elon Musk said about his big bet on robotaxis. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesl...spite-robotaxi-expansion-plans-133818343.html
A very good indicator....of mortgage rates and the health of the economy. US home sales accelerated in September to their fastest pace since February as mortgage rates eased https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-home-sales-accelerated-september-140409835.html
Not much really going on in the financial news today. Perhaps this little event is dominating people's attention. Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, Heat guard Terry Rozier among over 30 individuals arrested by FBI for alleged illegal gambling https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/breaki...i-for-alleged-illegal-gambling-120646980.html
For those that own TSLA....I see this as a pretty good article on earnings....which I actually consider good. Tesla reports record sales, record storage—but profit slips as tax-credit rush pulls demand forward https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-reports-record-sales-record-212823188.html
I am not seeing a peep about the CPI release tomorrow. it is mostly being IGNORED. BUT...yes it is scheduled to come out tomorrow. The lack of coverage just shows how irrelevant and ridiculous all the....usual.....CPI drama and fear-mongering actually is. One benefit of the government shut-down....the lack of coverage of economic data and the total absence of the FED morons in the day to day news. What To Expect In Friday's CPI Inflation Report https://www.investopedia.com/september-cpi-inflation-preview-11835258
A very good day for me so far....only two RED stocks....HD and COST. I need to make up what I took out of my brokerage account yesterday. AND.....YES....I did adjust the figures that I use to calculate my weekly gains and losses and annual gain or loss to take into account what I cashed in to use for art yesterday.
If I was looking to buy my first home....I am not sure I would wait. I would probably look for homes that meet my expectations and have been on the market for a while. I would also perhaps....offer a bit higher price....BUT.... than ask for the seller and/or my realtor to kick in some money to....BUY DOWN....the rate on my mortgage. To me waiting for lower rates is a crap-shoot. It probably will happen...but to what extent....and at what cost...if buyers start to come into the markets and prices start to go up. AND....if you expect rates to go below about the low 5% rate....you are going to be waiting for a very long time. Even getting to the mid to high 5% range is going to take a while.....IF...it even happens at all. Most potential homebuyers expect mortgage rates to drop. That’s why they’re waiting https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/23/housing-market-survey-buyers-expect-mortgage-rates-to-drop.html
Speaking of rates and such...... Mortgage Type Rate Change 30 Year Fixed Mortgage 6.17% +0.00 15 Year Fixed Mortgage 5.73% -0.02 30 Year Jumbo Mortgage 6.10% -0.05 7/6 SOFR ARM Mortgage 5.71% +0.01 30 Year FHA Mortgage 5.90% +0.00 30 Year VA Mortgage 5.91% -0.01 Rates last updated on 10/22/25. US Treasury Rates The US treasury yield curve rates are updated at the end of each trading day. All data is sourced from the Daily Treasury Par Yield Curve Rates data provided by the Treasury.gov website. Treasury Current Yield Change Previous Yield 1 Month Treasury 4.11% -0.01 4.12% 1.5 Monthnth Treasury 4.08% -0.01 4.09% 2 Month Treasury 4.04% -0.01 4.05% 3 Month Treasury 3.96% 0.00 3.96% 4 Month Treasury 3.90% 0.00 3.90% 6 Month Treasury 3.78% 0.00 3.78% 1 Year Treasury 3.55% -0.01 3.56% 2 Year Treasury 3.45% 0.00 3.45% 3 Year Treasury 3.44% -0.02 3.46% 5 Year Treasury 3.56% 0.00 3.56% 7 Year Treasury 3.74% 0.00 3.74% 10 Year Treasury 3.97% -0.01 3.98% 20 Year Treasury 4.52% -0.01 4.53% 30 Year Treasury 4.54% -0.01 4.55% Treasury rates updated on 2025-10-22 with data sourced from Treasury.gov.
Quite interesting! I visited Giverny in July 2018, before COVID-19 pandemics, with my wife. It was during a visit we made back then to Paris where go back with some frequency; I think it was forth or fifth time then. We made a tour specially to Giverny, one full day. We were able to visit Monet house, the gardens, a greenhouse working as a gift shop, the lake and some surroundings. I have a few photos from the house, the kitchen with the copper pots, Monet atelier, and mainly the lake and beautifull gardens. France ....still a lovely place despite the french...
"Despite the French"......LOL.....love it. We had some VERY RUDE experiences while touring as a band in France. When we had off days our French...."guides/protectors".....would take us to see some of the tourist sights. We did not care...it was funny.
WOW....looking good with an hour to go.....for ME. I am about to make up all the money I spent on a painting yesterday....in one day. BOOM.
WTF....why in the world are we giving a Chinese company nearly $24MILLION....before they even own the land to build a fantasy plant. Michigan terminates controversial EV battery plant and seeks to claw back millions in incentives https://finance.yahoo.com/news/michigan-terminates-controversial-ev-battery-185026424.html What a scam. If we want to give away money....we should at least focus on AMERICAN companies.
About time....I got a nice large....medium...gain in my stocks today. Also...a beat on the SP500 by 0.22%. Now we move on to....CPI FRIDAY.
The markets did well today. I only had two stocks in the RED....COST and HD. I think I was up all day....although I did not watch all day. A good NORMAL day. Here is the close: S&P 500 closes higher, recouping Wednesday’s loss and then some https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/stock-market-today-live-updates.html I did not recoup my painting money....but...I got most of it in one day. Now I just have to hang onto it.
