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Are the trends still our friends?

by Interactive Brokers Traders Insight|Published September 23, 2020

Steve Sosnick, Interactive Brokers’ chief strategist, discusses how the stay-at-home stocks that led the market higher may also lead it lower.

As a late summer surge in Europe shows, the virus is having a corrosive impact on economic growth.

Is the US next as we head into the winter flu season?

Photo Credit: Michel Craig via Flickr Creative Commons

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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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