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 Klein.

Good afternoon fellow investors and welcome back to Invest Talk.

This is our Friday, January 26, 2024 edition and congratulations.

You made it through another week and almost the first full week,

first full month of the year and you know before we hit the exciting weekend hope everyone has some fun plans but

before we do that we need to finish the business close up the week of understanding what's happening in the

markets, helping you find the opportunities and avoid the bad risks.

It's not about avoiding risk altogether.

You never want to do that.

No risk is no reward.

But it's about making smart or taking smart risks. And ultimately that's

what this is about.

It's about, a lot of people think investing as a casino because it seems so random to them. But if you understand data over the long period you can become the casino putting the odds in

your favor and our job here is to help you do that.

Put the odds in your favor.

Now I'm Justin Klein and I'm excited for this hour

to answer your finance and investment questions

and give you my unbiased perspective, developed over 20 plus years of

investment experience and we're going to touch on the market performance to

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