Hey, so here's a question.

What do strawberry jam and stock market analytics have in common?

Stick around.

We'll tell you.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace.

In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Riznell.

It is Tuesday, today, 9 June.

Good as always to have you along, everybody.

The Strawberry Jam comes to us from the J.M. Smucker Company to which we will get in just a second.

The stock market analytics come to us from Bank of America.

The setup comes from us, and it goes like this.

These are, broadly speaking, heady days in the equity markets.

Record highs practically every time you turn around. Everybody you can think of is filing and go public and trillion-dollar companies are basically table stakes now.

However, comma. Bank of America is singing a different tune. In a note last week, B of A, which I

should tell you advertises with us, said there are, and this is a quote, too many red flags, end quote, pointing to a market peak and that it is time to, again I'm quoting because these words matter, take profits.

So, Marketplace's Henry Ep gets us going.

Stock market analysts don't really speak in plain English.

So when they recommend investors take profits, they're really telling people to sell,

but they're trying to do it in sort of a market etiquette way.

James Weston is with the Rice University Business School.

Bank of America declined an interview request.

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