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Stocks to Watch: Minding the Markets and the Fed

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Is the Market Resiliency Related to the Consumer Resilience?

The market's resilience is related to the consumer resilience. Consumers have been propped up by excess savings. Names for businesses have remained high because even in spite of inflation being high consumers have kept spending. The Fed now has a wage mandate. They need to break two high wages to get inflation back down to 2%. And again, I think that'll require layoffs.

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