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It’s no secret that central banks play an influential role in the direction of the stock market. To illustrate just how much of a factor they are in setting stock prices, we only need to go back to late 2018 when stocks plunged on the Fed’s turn toward quantitative tightening or its recent actions to steady the markets during the global pandemic meltdown. Click here to read the entire article. #ThoughtLeadership

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