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Today's QuickTake Issue No. 1309

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Dr. Ed Yardeni has been reading markets for over four decades. QuickTakes is his take — calm, data-first, and published five to eight times a week, whenever the market calls for it.

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The US economy remains resilient, and so do corporate earnings. The US economy has passed several stress tests in recent years. The war in the Middle East is proving to be the

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