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The road ahead for markets in 2021

by Interactive Brokers Traders Insight|Published January 5, 2021

Steve Sosnick, Interactive Brokers’ chief strategist, discusses some themes from 2020 and what that means for risk going forward in 2021.

Control of the US Senate will have big implications for investors as will the direction of Fed policy and tech stocks. 

Photo Credit: Gayle Nicholson 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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