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4 Stocks Set to Soar After the Latest Inflation Numbers

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This week I want to take a comprehensive look at the current market landscape and some exciting investment opportunities, particularly in real estate and banking sectors.

A few weeks ago, we saw a promising inflation report, showing the lowest core increase in over three years and a decrease in the headline number month-over-month. While this is undoubtedly positive news, it's important to be cautious against excessive optimism. The decrease was largely driven by lower gasoline and rent prices, which are nice but not necessarily sustainable.

Regarding Federal Reserve policy, Chair Powell remained non-committal in his recent testimony, frequently using the phrase "data-dependent." While the market is anticipating rate cuts in September and December, these predictions have often been inaccurate. If pressed for a prediction, I will go with Torsten Slok's view. The economist for Apollo Global has been suggesting no cuts this year, and he was the first lonely voice in the wilderness ot suggest that this was going to be the case.

In his mid-year update, slot pointed out that no matter how pleasing the day-to-day news may be… 

I bet you didn’t know you could’ve made a fortune buying dividend stocks over the last decade. Everyone talked about growth stocks… what about little-known, value stocks not only 10X-ing portfolios… but also increasing your dividends 10X as well.