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March Madness: Final Four Investing Bracket 2024

Dear Mr. Market

Click here or below to see or enlarge the entire bracket for 2024. EOG is poised to breakout and trades at bargain valuation of about nine times earnings (relative to the S&P at 23 times earnings and a touch under the overall energy sector of 12 times earnings).

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Should You Worry About “Recession” Risk?

Discipline Funds

Our general view on inflation is that the Fed won the battle already and they won’t declare victory until 2024 or 2025. When you combine this with a very low unemployment rate and high market valuations you tend to see the sort of choppy stock market that we’ve been experiencing in the last few years.

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Financial Market Round-Up – Jan’24

Truemind Capital

Some of the fund managers continued discouraging flows in Mid & Small Cap stocks by either sounding cautious, dropping coverage, or stopping the inflows owing to frothy valuations in the space. We maintain our underweight position to equity (check the 3rd page for asset allocation) due to an unfavorable risk-reward ratio.

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Financial Market Round-Up – Apr’24

Truemind Capital

In case, the results in June 2024 come contrary to the expectations of the thumping majority, we are at a risk of markets correcting by at least 5%. Indian equity benchmark BSE Sensex went up by only 2% due to already stretched equity valuations. One can consider debt portfolios with floating rate instruments for long-term allocation.

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Latest Equity Asset Alocation Views | Weekly Market Commentary | March 13, 2023

James Hendries

Instead, we got a shockingly fast collapse of a financial institution with over $200 billion in assets, which turned the market’s focus toward the stability of the banking system and what systemic risks banks might be facing. But valuations strongly favor value over growth. The S&P 600 small cap index has returned about 1.5%

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New Bull May Need a Breather | Weekly Market Commentary | June 26, 2023

James Hendries

However, the impending end of the Federal Reserve (Fed) rate-hiking campaign, and the economy’s and corporate America’s resilience, help make the bull case that steers LPL Research toward a neutral, rather than negative, equities view from a tactical asset allocation perspective. 06/2024) All index data from FactSet.

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Fear Not

The Better Letter

That didn’t happen, obviously, so now he says it’s coming in 2024. 2014 : “What concerns us beyond valuations is the full ensemble of overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions.” 2020 : “[E]xtreme valuations. ” The S&P earned 15.89 percent that year while HSGFX lost 12.62

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