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#MrMarket:Wall Street raises its year end targets for a soft landing. Lancaster County spends money on fresh ice cream scoops. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor Barron's

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 22 July 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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#MrMarket:Wall Street raises its year end targets for a soft landing. Lancaster County spends money on fresh ice cream scoops. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor Barron's
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0:00.0

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0:24.8

Such TFL improvement plan to the Mayor of London and TFL every journey matters.

0:35.2

This is CBS. I am the world. I'm John Bachelors. The Federal Reserve meets within days. We'll

0:40.3

have the announcement the middle of next week. Right now, however, we can anticipate some things.

0:46.7

And Jim McTague, former Washington editor of Berence has been to this rodeo many times.

0:52.4

The raising of expectations or the lowering of expectations for the whole year done by all of

0:58.8

the smart analysts on Wall Street and around the world. Jim, a very good evening to you.

1:04.3

Striking to me is the revisions for expectations at the end of the year.

1:10.8

January, there was the assumption at the end of 23 and July. There's the assumption at the end of

1:15.7

23. Uniformly, everyone has raised their expectations. Most notably, the most conservative

1:23.4

of these, Piper Sandler, raised their expectations for the S&P 500, 32, 25, and January that was

1:31.0

their belief. Now it's 3,700. Today, the S&P 500 closed at 45 and a half, 45, 36.

1:39.7

The largest expectation by the end of the year I'm reading here is the Credit Suisse at 4,700,

1:46.7

which is not much higher than here. What are these expectations? What are these predictions?

1:52.2

How are they used on Wall Street, Jim? Good evening to you.

1:55.7

A good evening, John. I think they're pretty much used to sell the gullible public

2:03.7

on the alleged expertise of these stock market gurus. Obviously, there's a boom work

2:13.0

because the public is convinced that the Fed will end in January a soft landing, meaning it will

2:21.5

squeeze inflation or most inflation out of the economy that will have an inflation rate of 2%.

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