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 stands ready to take your finance and investment questions and share his

unbiased answers.

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 Financial Chief Executive Officer, Financial Advisor, Justin Klein.

Good afternoon fellow investors and welcome back to Invest Talk and welcome to the second half of the year. The third quarter has

begun. Today was the first trading day of the first quarter and, did I say first quarter,

first trading to the third quarter, and I'm Justin Klein, I'm here to help you through

the back half of this year and beyond. First half is in the books. It went by fast, just like they all do as you get older and it was an interesting

year we enter the second or interesting first half of the year we enter the second

half with a lot of obviously political news.

You have the holiday coming up here on on Thursday and there's a lot to unpack as we now start really that final stretch of until the election.

Markets do tend to get more volatile as you get closer to the election.

And we're just, what, four months away, roughly a little more.

So as we've seen with the first half of this year,

six months go by fast and four months will go by even faster.

So all of this will be a, at least a near term,

influence on markets and our job is to give you some historical context and unpack it in an unbiased way. It's so easy to get caught up in the politics of it all,

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