Need to Know: Buy stocks ahead of 2024 rate cuts, because once they start it’s less great, says strategist

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After the turkey comes the shopping. But Black Friday on Wall Street is unlikely to replicate the exuberance of bargain hunters in the malls, with investors’ expected reticence reflected in the stock market closing early at 1 p.m. Eastern time.

Yes, we now are in what market commentators like to call the holiday season. When U.S. trading starts again on Monday there will be only 24 sessions left in 2023 and attention will increasingly turn to next year.

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