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

Carson Wealth

The third quarter’s blockbuster productivity data follows a hot number from the prior quarter, when productivity rose 3.5% (annualized). Higher wages can result from higher productivity in any number of ways, including businesses introducing more machines or organizing work more efficiently. Since 2020, productivity has averaged a 1.4%

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Market Commentary: Stocks Are Quite Resilient

Carson Wealth

Recent sentiment polls show a high number of bears while worries about the economy and earnings continue to expand. This is the ninth straight rate increase and brings rates to their highest level since 2007. However, since that time a slew of strong economic data, including elevated inflation numbers, came in.

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Market Commentary: The Latest on the Banking Crisis

Carson Wealth

A high number indicates worry is increasing about a bank’s solvency. Money is flowing from small banks to large banks, and large banks are in solid financial shape. Lastly, the Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF remains above the 2007 peak. Think of credit default swaps as the price of insurance against potential losses.

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Market Commentary: S&P 500 Index Hits a New All-Time High

Carson Wealth

While new highs were set before bear markets in 1987, 2000, 2007, and 2020 in recent memory, the market has also made spectacular gains following new highs. We believe the first interest rate cut may come in May, unless inflation data over the next six weeks surprises to the downside or we get terrible payroll numbers.

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Resilience is Core to Sustainable Portfolio Construction

Brown Advisory

The idea has since been refined more quantitatively, first by Benoit Mandelbrot in his 1982 book, The Fractal Geometry, and more recently by Nassim Nicolas Taleb in his 2007 book, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, and then again in his 2012 book, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.

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10 Best Blue Chip Companies in India that You Should Know!

Trade Brains

List of Best Blue Chip Companies in India: If you start counting the numbers, you’ll find that the stocks can be categorized into many groups. I know the rule of large numbers , Gaurav. Blue chip companies have survived a number of bear phases, market crises, financial troubles, etc. Thank you for reminding me.

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Realistic Retirement Planning

The Better Letter

According to Fidelity , the financial services firm that administers about $10 trillion in assets and has more than 40 million workplace participant accounts, the average 401(k) balance is only around $100,000 and the average Boomer balance (a demographic that is in or near retirement) is only around $200,000. points since 2008.