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The First Totally Honest Stock Market Story

The Big Picture

For the bulk of this story as in most financial services stories, I will quote from a series of famous blowhards, all of whom predicted that this bull market would top out at 7500. If anybody would like a slightly used Exercycle, please call (212) 555-2000. Microsoft was up 1/4. Dell was down 1/8. Motorola was down 2.

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Market Commentary: Stocks Hit New Highs Amid a Year of Milestones

Carson Wealth

One More Bit of Good News November was a huge month for stocks, but the big winner was small caps, with the Russell 2000 up an amazing 10.9%. We found 22 other times the Russell 2000 gained at least double digits in a month and six months later it has been higher 90% of the time and a year later up a very solid 15% on average.

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Market Commentary: More Reasons We Think This Bull Market Has Plenty of Life Left

Carson Wealth

last week, declining for the second consecutive week, but there’s still a lot of strength under the surface, as the small cap Russell 2000 Index climbed 3.5%. March 2000 at the peak of the tech bubble. For markets, GDP is typically one of the least important economic data points because the numbers are relatively stale.

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Market Commentary: Strong Jobs Report Gets the “Good News Is Bad News” Treatment

Carson Wealth

Monthly numbers can be noisy and so a 3-month average is helpful. The hiring rate, which is the number of hires as a percent of the labor force, has fallen to 3.3%, the slowest pace since 2013 (outside of the Covid months). The economy created 256,000 jobs in December, blowing past expectations for a 165,000 increase.

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Transcript: Melissa Smith, co-Head of Commercial Banking at JPMorgan

The Big Picture

And generally speaking, we are sort of number one or number two in everything that we do, which, which again is a great privilege to work there from that perspective. So I have a recollection of the era following the.com ramp up and then the, the crash in 2000. I’ll speak for, you know, financial services specifically.

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Yes Bank’s turn around? From Struggle to Strength

Trade Brains

After that Rana kapoor took incharge of Yes bank, being an ambitious man Rana kapoor wanted to make Yes bank the number 1 private bank in India. In 2017 RBI also found that Yes bank’s NPA were closer to rupees 8,000 crores but the bank declared it had only NPA’s worth rupees 2000 crores. Yes Bank posted rupees 16,418.02

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Market Commentary: S&P 500 Has Best Week of the Year as Recession Fears Fade

Carson Wealth

Those numbers were the underpinning of a large upside surprise in July retail sales. And finally small cap stocks caught a bid, the Russell 2000 Index of small cap stocks climbing 2.5% The NASDAQ 100 Index includes publicly-traded companies from most sectors in the global economy, the major exception being financial services.

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