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Market Commentary: Good News Is Good News

Carson Wealth

In 2022, positive economic data typically led to a sell-off in the stock market, and weak data often led to a rally. Strong economic growth and better data should be viewed positively, as it shows the economy isn’t falling into a recession. The economy ran above trend last year, despite high interest rates.

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Market Commentary: S&P 500 Tops 5,000. What’s Next?

Carson Wealth

But now we have a healthy economy, well-contained inflation, a Federal Reserve set to cut rates, improving productivity, record earnings, and stocks at all-time highs. As we wrote in our 2024 Outlook, “Seeing Eye to Eye” ( download here ), productivity growth is a game-changer for the economy.

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Market Commentary: Fundamentals May Be Aligned for Solid Stock Gains in 2024

Carson Wealth

ECONOMY The economy saw blockbuster productivity growth in the third quarter. ECONOMY: PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH COULD BE A GAME CHANGER Lost in all the consternation over a weak payroll report this month was robust productivity data, which was released earlier. But this was not because the productive capacity of the economy expanded.

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Market Commentary: Fed, Earnings, Job Gains Support a Young Bull Market

Carson Wealth

This Bull Market Is Still Young As we’ve been saying for close to 18 months, we think we are in a new bull market and the economy will avoid a recession over the coming year. The April jobs number showed a healthy job market while easing concerns that the economy is overheating. Not much has changed, and we still feel this way.

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Transcript: Marta Norton

The Big Picture

We talk about everything from when do you think about risk, how do you diversify a portfolio, at what point do you really have to rethink the fundamentals of what’s going on in the economy and the marketplace? So I leave the Bureau of Labor Statistics and I move into economic consulting. NORTON: So 2005-2006 timeframe.

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Transcript: David Snyderman, Magnetar Capital

The Big Picture

So I switched to be an economics major. I graduated economics with, with a lot of coursework in accounting and finance. So I saw many companies then taxed and financial services. It was 16 hour days and it was six or seven days a week, but you really got to learn the financial markets there.

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Transcript: Jonathan Miller

The Big Picture

And so the idea is that, what I’ve heard is like, hey, we’re going into a recession or a weak economic period so therefore everybody’s going to go into work four and a half days a week because they want face time with their boss. I don’t care whether the economy is strong or weak, it’s not going to be the same.

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