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Here is KPP Financial President, Financial Advisor, Steve Peasley.

Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Invest Talk.

It is Tuesday, January 31st, 2023, and we have just completed the first trading month

of this year, 2023, and I know that investors that have been around the market a long time

know that the dynamics have changed and will continue to change, but we go from bear markets

to bull markets, bear bull markets last many years, bear markets last one to three years.

So this is the second year, but January has been up month.

So far, I mean, I think there's some piece up like 4-5% for the month, 5% for the month

of January and the NASDAQ has even doubled that and Dow is up 3-4% and it's a little smaller.

So this has been a very good January, they will move into February.

The Federal Reserve is meeting right now, so we'll know more about interest.

There's lots of variables, right?

These variables cause all kinds of changes.

So we know that our economy is slow and that's going to affect earnings and I don't know

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