Alain Guillot

Life, Leadership, and Money Matters

  • Stock Market Recap — Thursday, May 7, 2026

    Stock Market Recap — Thursday, May 7, 2026

    Alain’s Holdings Symbol Name Price Change Change % VOO Vanguard S&P 500 ETF 672.54 -2.12 -0.31% QQQ Invesco QQQ Trust 694.91 -0.86 -0.12% XIU.TO iShares S&P/TSX 60 ETF 49.73 -0.26 -0.52% VRT Vertiv Holdings Co. 340.01 -18.91 -5.27% The Dow Touched 50,000 — Then Pulled Back. Iran Waiting Game Stalls…

  • AI Economy: Why Oil Shocks No Longer Crash U.S. Markets

    AI Economy: Why Oil Shocks No Longer Crash U.S. Markets

    Discover why the AI economy is reshaping U.S. markets and why oil shocks no longer impact stocks like they once did.

  • Quick Tips For Getting Your Finances Back On Track Fast

    Quick Tips For Getting Your Finances Back On Track Fast

    If you feel like your finances have gone off the rails recently, then you’re not alone. More and more people are struggling to keep paying their bills and mortgages. Unfortunately, life happens and it can get messy sometimes. The more responsibilities you have, the more difficult it is to bring…

  • How to Set a Sustainable Budget for Online Entertainment

    How to Set a Sustainable Budget for Online Entertainment

    Many common saving strategies essentially view entertainment as the easy mark to cut at the end of the month (“we’ll just stay in!”) or as the automatic excess that must be battled into submission. Most of us here know that if you don’t track your spending when you are out…

  • How To Ensure You’re Working With The Right Suppliers

    How To Ensure You’re Working With The Right Suppliers

    Surely it’s easy to find the right suppliers? If it was an issue, wouldn’t every business find it problematic and there’d be more information about it? Well, perhaps not. That might be because businesses don’t like to shout about the things they find hard, or it could be because they…

  • What Makes People Pay Attention to a Business Online?

    What Makes People Pay Attention to a Business Online?

    Do you look at or even really think about every business you happen to scroll past online? The answer is definitely no – no one has time for that, and it’s an impossible thing to ask of anyone. And yet there are some businesses that seem to get a lot…