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InvestTalk is made possible by KPP Financial, a registered investment advisor firm, serving clients throughout the United States.

Here is KPP Financial portfolio manager, Luke Guerrero.

Good afternoon, fellow investors, and welcome back to Invest Talk. I'm Luke Guerrero,

on today's Wednesday, June 18th, 2025. And although it's a short week in terms of trading,

only four trading days this week, it doesn't mean that there isn't news to digest, news to understand, moves to be made. A lot of things

happening around the world geopolitically, economically, at home and abroad. And so our job as

investors is to try and take this information and try and understand how it affects the world, how

it affects markets, and therefore how it affects each and every one of us.

You're here to InvestTalk.

We think we are a small part of that mission.

We bring you stories.

We bring you actionable items.

We bring you educational material day in and day out.

But most importantly, we want to answer the questions that are top of mind for you.

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Any way you give us the question, we will answer it.

And so because that is the main point of our show to answer your finance and investment

questions, before we talk about today's market performance and run down those show topics,

let's tackle our first question now.

Hi, this is Brian from San Jose.

I have a long position in Primeraica,

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