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The second quarter of 2022 saw the U.S. Federal Reserve continue hiking interest rates as inflation remained sky-high. Unless companies can raise their profits more than 9% year over year to surpass inflation, they are effectively seeing their profits decrease on an inflation-adjusted basis, which is not exactly a recipe for a bull market.
moderately negative