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Analysts are upbeat toward S&P 500 stocks for 2022, though some of the optimism has moderated following a volatile start to the year. Between talk of higher interest rates on the way to the wind-down of the "stay-at-home trade" that drove returns in 2021, investors have repositioned themselves for what could turn out to be a very different year on Wall Street.
moderately positive