At a time when investors are confronted with market volatility and a variety of challenges fueled by the uncertainty of inflation, unsettled geopolitical tensions, and economic pressures.

Justin Klein and Steve Peasley stand ready

to take your finance and investment questions and share their unbiased answers.

This is Invest Talk. Independent thinking, shared success. Invest Talk is made possible by KPP Financial,

a registered investment advisor firm serving clients throughout the United States.

The clarity for your path forward starts now.

Here is KPP Chief Executive Officer, Financial Advisor Justin Clyde.

Good afternoon fellow investors and welcome back to Invest Talk.

This is our Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 edition and we are moving through the third week of the year and

option X week and if you understand the flow dynamics in the market, that often is a pivotal week for markets.

And you're starting to see that with a little bit of volatility.

We'll get a little bit more color between now and the end of the month as well.

Let's see if we get a broader pullback in markets,

but that's the near term. The near term fluctuations,

they can be perplexing at times.

Mainly they deal in volatility, they deal in flows,

right, is money going into the market, is money going out of the market.

And there are a lot of liquidity dynamics behind the scenes

that most people don't think about.

So I don't want you guys to get too caught up in it,

but understand that when you get a perplexing market,

these are the things that are kind of happening behind the scenes.

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