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Market Commentary: Reasons To Be Thankful

Carson Wealth

The economy remains strong, the consumer is healthy, the wall of worry is intact, and manufacturing is bottoming. The Consumer Is Strong We’ve been hearing for two years that the consumer was tapped out and the economy was headed for a recession. Stocks rallied again last week and are now up four weeks in a row.

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Market Commentary: Another October Low Forming?

Carson Wealth

The economy has strong momentum, with growth accelerating since the first half of the year. Let’s Call It Like It Is: The Economy Is Strong, and There’s No Recession on the Horizon A year ago, a Bloomberg Economics model projected a recession within the next 12 months with 100% probability. Through June 2023, the economy grew 2.4%

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Market Commentary: Strong Starts to the Year Are Usually Bullish for Stocks

Carson Wealth

As long-time followers of this commentary know, we’ve been quite bullish on both the stock market and the economy for well over a year now. but all major economies based on their individual economic sensitivities, which we can then roll up to regional and global leading indicators. Could stocks fall in April? While our U.S.

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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: What a Month!

Carson Wealth

The economy overall remained firm and the consumer quite healthy all along, but the realization that inflation was no longer a headwind prompted stocks to rise. Fed officials are now acknowledging that inflation can fall even as the economy remains strong and unemployment stays low. What sparked the historic rally? over the last six.

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Market Commentary: Stocks Take a Breather

Carson Wealth

The big picture is the economy is normalizing. Big Picture: The Economy Is Normalizing We started this year discussing how the economy has been at the “edge of normal” in our 2023 outlook. The individual country LEIs are subsequently rolled up into a global index to give us a picture of the global economy.

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Market Commentary: The Best Week of the Year and the Best Month of the Year

Carson Wealth

Although many were worried, the economy remained quite strong and odds were high the Fed was done hiking rates. The economy is normalizing, which could loosen tight financial conditions and boost cyclical activity. The October payroll report indicates the economy is slowing from its red-hot pace.