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Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Invest Talk, it is Friday, April 28, 2023.

And you know, the stock market has behaving pretty well this week, you know, this month has

actually been a pretty decent month, I think it's, you know, surprising.

You know, it only has happened in the last few days, but earnings have been pretty impressive

for the first quarter.

So we have kind of a mixed signal going on for us as to what the economy is doing, but

I think that's going to continue, because Federal Reserve is going to be raising rates,

just not a lot, but I think there, I think people are coming to a conclusion that maybe

they're getting close to the end of their rate raising activity.

And therefore maybe the market and the economy is not that bad.

I think we've got to have to take away and see, we're just going to have, because things

change, things change pretty fast.

I'm going to go over some of the numbers that have been reported this week, just to give

an idea.

But the business cycle, the economic cycle and the stock market cycle, you know, we're

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