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A 21% Return for the S&P 500 Wasn’t on Anyone’s 2024 Bingo Card

What a Year 2024 has been! Despite fears and trepidations, the stock market achieved an impressive 57 record highs as of December 20, 2024. Unsurprisingly, Wall Street analysts had a notably inaccurate outlook for the stock market this year. Last year, 14 different firms projected the S&P 500 would range...

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2024 Market Predictions Are In; Consensus Is Not

Nobody has a crystal ball; Wall Street certainly doesn’t. At the end of last year, most economists were predicting a recession in 2023. The average prediction for the S&P 500 for 2023 was 4,029; a 5% increase from year-end. Flash forward to almost year-end - we certainly aren’t in a...

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