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Market Commentary: Good News Is Good News

Carson Wealth

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. Economy: This Time Was Different, and That’s a Big Deal The U.S. economy grew 5.8% And that is what is happening now.

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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. equities in particular.

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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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Best Small Cap IT Stocks in India To Add To Your Watchlist in 2024

Trade Brains

These are Hi-Tech and Manufacturing , Banking , Financial Services and Insurance , and Consumer Services. The Parent Company of Affle (India) was founded in Singapore in 2005. With over 37 offices worldwide, the Company derives ~71% of its revenue from North America, the UK & Europe bringing another 18.1%

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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. annual pace between 2005 and 2019.

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Market Commentary: January Gains, Jobs Report Both Bullish for Markets

Carson Wealth

The economy created 353,000 jobs in January, surprising to the upside. Job gains continue to support income growth, which in turn supports consumer spending and the overall economy. For a broad view of our expectations for the economy, stocks, and bonds in 2024, download our 2024 Market Outlook.

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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 applied and was hired as an ETF analyst in 2005. NORTON: So 2005-2006 timeframe. RITHOLTZ: — back then.

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