2022 Year of the Bear, What's the Market's Next Act? | December 2022 Webinar Recap

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2022 market overview, housing and labor market weighing on crowd sentiment, Fed announcements, and inflation remain at the forefront of investors’ minds as the market continues to be confusing for economists. In our latest webinar, Stratos Private Wealth President Jeff Brown discusses the latest inflation data, how the Fed is responding, and what the rest of the year could look like for the market. Here are the key takeaways:

• Evaluating our four-step bottoming process of: Oversold, Rally, Retest and Breadth thrusts to determine next equity portfolio adjustment.
• While there are signs of recession in the housing market, job market is extremely tight still
• Fed likely to slow their pace of rate hikes and maybe even stop them at some point.
• Coming off recent bottom, there was a strong breadth thrust indicator

We continue to monitor the latest data from our research partners and are prepared to make tactical changes. As always, our team is here to answer any questions about your personal situation.

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