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Behind the market’s record highs

by Interactive Brokers Traders Insight|Published April 23, 2019

Steve Sosnick, Interactive Brokers’ chief strategist, discusses the S&P 500 and if he sees the current momentum continuing in the stock market.

Sosnick sees solid momentum behind the current market rally. Corporate earnings are solid and the US Federal Reserve has backed off further rate hikes.

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Interactive Brokers Traders’ Insight (IBTI) is a venue for market-related articles and commentary covering an array of asset classes and topics. All articles published on Traders’ Insight are simultaneously published directly to our trading platform (TWS).
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