Lee: S&P 500 earnings grew despite major post-2020 macroeconomic shocks
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Fundstrat CIO Tom Lee discusses the unexpected earnings resilience of U.S. public equities through successive post-2020 macroeconomic shocks.
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“Four of four of those events should have caused a lot of companies to fail or earnings to decline. S&P earnings grew that entire period.”
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