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Hi everyone, I'm Jack Howe, but never mind that and this is the Barron Streetwise podcast

I want to tell you about a very special guest we have on this week's show

Listening in is our audio producer Jackson Cantrellis, not Jackson, we're delighted to have him, he's not the special guest.

Hi Jackson.

Hey Jack.

And smiling right in front of me, be spectacled face that means wearing glasses of

Andrew Barry Baron's own Andrew Barry. Hi Andrew.

Great to be here with you Jack. Nice to have you. I love this time of year when you come out with the top stock picks, top 10 stocks for the year ahead for Barron's.

Very exciting, I always talk about stock picks from somebody who knows a thing or two about finding them who has had some success in that field.

I'm not the most successful stock picker around.

I don't think it's any secret, but you do a great job with this.

Let's talk about, I want to go into your 10 picks for the year ahead.

Let's just talk about the stock market in general first off. How are we looking for next year?

Is there more upside here? Is there more meat on this bone for investors?

Did we get, is the getting still good? I think so. I think the you know the stock market today as we speak is that the

S&P 500 is up about 25% this year within about a half a percentage point of the

record set in early 2022.

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