Five investors on their biggest takeaways from 2023
CNN
Many investors agree that markets were anything but predictable last year.
Markets were anything but predictable last year. Investors aren’t looking to get caught flat-footed again. Stocks ended on a high note last year, but were tested by the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes, banking turmoil, debt ceiling worries and war in the Middle East. Many early-year consensus predictions about what 2023 would bring — including a recession and several rate cuts — didn’t pan out. CNN spoke with five investors about the biggest lessons they learned and how they’ve helped shape their 2024 outlooks. Americans shelled out on everything from summer vacations to concert tours featuring Taylor Swift and Beyoncé last year. That helped keep the economy, and, in turn, the market, resilient even as the Fed raised rates to a 22-year high. David Kelly, chief global strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management, says he expects Americans to continue spending robustly, despite the continued drain on savings accumulated during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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