Scott Ladner

FOCUS Quarterly Report | Q3 2025

Scott Ladner October 23, 2025

Muddle, Bust, or Boom? Scenarios for the Economy and Consumers OVERVIEW The third quarter of

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CNBC: This is still a tech-driven, AI-driven market

Scott Ladner October 9, 2025

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Webcast Replay: Q3 2025 Quarterly Review & Market Outlook

Scott Ladner October 7, 2025

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BNN Bloomerg: No Friday jobs report could impact markets

Scott Ladner October 1, 2025

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FOX Business: Strong labor market and tech boom driving US economy despite shutdown threat

Scott Ladner September 30, 2025

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Yahoo Finance | AI CapEx is a ‘stimulus-level’ boost to economy and productivity

Scott Ladner August 16, 2025

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Bloomberg TV | Rules of the Game for Chipmakers Selling to China

Scott Ladner August 12, 2025

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Fox Business | The proof is going to be in the margin pudding

Scott Ladner August 12, 2025

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CNBC: Two cuts is probably about the right number

Scott Ladner August 8, 2025

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FOX Business: Markets will ‘reward’ Big Tech’s $400B investment in AI, chief investment officer argues

Scott Ladner August 4, 2025

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Schwab Network | Market Could Keep Hitting Records Next Week

Scott Ladner July 25, 2025

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FOCUS Quarterly Report | Q2 2025

Scott Ladner July 24, 2025

The Confidence Gap: Strong Economy, Shaky Sentiment OVERVIEW U.S. stocks posted strong returns during the

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CNBC: Investor Sentiment has Improved

Scott Ladner July 15, 2025

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Bloomberg: AI Revolution in Early Stages

Scott Ladner July 9, 2025

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Webcast Replay: Q2 2025 Quarterly Review & Market Outlook

Scott Ladner July 8, 2025

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NPR: The dollar’s value has declined by 10% this year. What’s going on?

Scott Ladner July 2, 2025

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Yahoo Finance: S&P 500 hits a new record close, Jeffries upgrades Apple stock

Scott Ladner July 2, 2025

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Bloomberg: Stock Market’s Path Depends on Fed’s View of What We Don’t Know

Scott Ladner June 21, 2025

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CNNBusiness: Trump’s trade war is bruising Apple — and your 401(k)

Scott Ladner May 31, 2025

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Bloomberg Radio: Trump Wins Tariff Reprieve

Scott Ladner May 29, 2025

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CNNBusiness: Stocks, dollar stumble after Trump reignites his trade war

Scott Ladner May 23, 2025

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CNBC: CIO expects a ‘more measured’ reaction to Trump’s Friday comments but ‘tug of war’ ahead for economy

Scott Ladner May 23, 2025

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BNN Bloomberg: Market outlook amid ongoing trade war negotiations

Scott Ladner May 22, 2025

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FOX Business: Trump tariff deals can’t come fast enough, CIO says

Scott Ladner April 28, 2025

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Wall Street Journal: Dow Headed for Worst April Since 1932 as Investors Send ‘No Confidence’ Signal

Scott Ladner April 22, 2025

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Bloomberg TV: Earnings Estimates Not Important This Cycle: Horizon CIO

Scott Ladner April 21, 2025

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Schwab Network: ‘Not a Disaster Economy’, but Markets Need Clarity

Scott Ladner April 14, 2025

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America’s Tariff Hangover: What the Latest Data Tells Us

Scott Ladner April 11, 2025

Short-Term Market Volatility Market volatility over the past week has been nothing short of historic.

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BNN Bloomberg: Key takeaways on weakness in U.S. dollar

Scott Ladner April 11, 2025

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BNN Bloomberg: Where else could Trump implement tariffs next?

Scott Ladner April 4, 2025

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Evaluating the Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Liberation Day

Scott Ladner April 3, 2025

Tariffs are taxes and taxes slow economic growth. The Trump administration’s newly announced tariff policy

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Bloomberg: After ‘Liberation Day’ Comes ‘Obliteration Day’

Scott Ladner April 3, 2025

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Barron’s: The Fed is ‘Largely Irrelevant.’ Here’s Why.

Scott Ladner March 20, 2025

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CNBC: Ladner: Powell’s press conference is the main show today

Scott Ladner March 19, 2025

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Schwab Network: Tech ‘Has to Be’ in Your Portfolio

Scott Ladner March 18, 2025

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Yahoo Finance: Why Wall Street is struggling to adapt to Trump 2.0

Scott Ladner March 17, 2025

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Bloomberg Radio: US Stock Selloff Extends to APAC Markets

Scott Ladner March 10, 2025

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Schwab Network: Emerging Markets Opportunities After U.S./Ukraine Meeting

Scott Ladner March 3, 2025

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FOX Business: Trump: Could end war in Ukraine within weeks

Scott Ladner February 24, 2025

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Schwab Network: January Inflation Reports: Consumer Strong but Fed Done Cutting

Scott Ladner February 13, 2025

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BNN Bloomberg: Why the U.S. fed is on hold for the next several months

Scott Ladner January 29, 2025

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CNBC: Technology and AI are going to diffuse into the rest of the economy

Scott Ladner January 23, 2025

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Money Life: ‘Earnings-driven market’ should post double-digit gains

Scott Ladner January 21, 2025

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Quarterly Report | Opportunities and Risks in 2025

Scott Ladner January 16, 2025

OVERVIEW Stocks posted mixed results during the fourth quarter of 2024. Investors were initially encouraged

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Yahoo Finance: It’s growth, not inflation keeping rates higher

Scott Ladner January 14, 2025

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Fox: Rising Yields & Fed Confusion: What’s Next for Markets?

Scott Ladner January 14, 2025

Watch Video As stocks dip and Treasury yields climb, CIO Scott Ladner remains cautiously optimistic.

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BNN Bloomberg: Is the Fed losing its nonpartisan footing?

Scott Ladner January 11, 2025

Watch Video Despite no significant changes in the economy, a shift in perspective has created

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Yahoo Finance: Sectors to watch vs. sectors to avoid in 2025

Scott Ladner December 9, 2024

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FOX Business: How can Americans invest ‘through the new normal’?

Scott Ladner December 9, 2024

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Bloomberg Technology | China’s Tech, Tesla’s Surge, Bitcoin’ Stall

Scott Ladner November 25, 2024

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BNN Bloomberg: The Latest Homebuilder Data

Scott Ladner November 21, 2024

The latest homebuilder data could provide some promising signals for the housing market. Chief Investment

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Schwab Network: What’s next for small caps and the Fed?

Scott Ladner November 19, 2024

Chief Investment Officer Scott Ladner dove into the key forces shaping today’s markets during a

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CNBC: A “Red Sweep” not happening makes sense for bond yields pulling back.

Scott Ladner November 4, 2024

Inflation concerns, rather than growth expectations, could be behind the rise in 10-year yields, especially

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BNN Bloomberg: The Energy Sector Amid Geopolitical Tensions

Scott Ladner October 29, 2024

“We’re gaining on it.” The mega-cap growth to small-cap stock transition that is. A solid

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BNN Bloomberg: Market playbook for a Trump or Harris victory

Scott Ladner October 29, 2024

Chief Investment Scott Ladner joined BNN Bloomberg to discuss potential impacts of the U.S. election

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Fox: AI technology can speed up drug development

Scott Ladner October 21, 2024

We think a “barbell approach” combining both sectors and ETFs may be beneficial to balance

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Quarterly Report | The Road Back to Normal

Scott Ladner October 18, 2024

OVERVIEW Stocks posted another quarter of positive returns — despite some significant volatility along the

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BNN Bloomberg: Current macro landscape in the U.S.

Scott Ladner October 8, 2024

Chief Investment Officer Scott Ladner joined BNN Bloomberg for a wide-ranging conversation on the post-COVID

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Bloomberg Radio: Middle East Worries

Scott Ladner October 2, 2024

How do you harness the resilience of the U.S. consumer? With steady wage gains and

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Schwab Network: China’s Will-They-Won’t-They Stimulus Package

Scott Ladner October 2, 2024

During a recent conversation with Schwab Network, Chief Investment Officer Scott Ladner highlighted three key

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Yahoo Finance: Why investors can’t adjust portfolios in ‘a meaningful way’

Scott Ladner October 2, 2024

With recent Chinese stimulus measures stirring excitement in the markets, it’s easy to get caught

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CNBC: Defense stocks are probably not a bad place to be right now

Scott Ladner October 2, 2024

Defensive stocks have come into focus as global tensions have risen in recent weeks –

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BNN Bloomberg: The underleveraged U.S. consumer

Scott Ladner September 10, 2024

September holds its notorious history of challenging stocks. How could interest rate cuts affect the

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Fox: Why does the U.S. consumer feel like garbage?

Scott Ladner September 9, 2024

Regardless of stabilized delinquency rates and healthy debt-to-income ratios, consumers do not believe this is

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Schwab: The “War and War Recovery” Cycle of the Markets

Scott Ladner September 4, 2024

Despite Nvida’s recent slump, the market kept moving. Chief Investment Officer Scott Ladner joins Schwab

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CNBC: The story with NVIDIA is about the economy adopting AI

Scott Ladner August 29, 2024

Watch out above. Here comes revenue per employee. Chief Investment Officer Scott Ladner joins CNBC

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Schwab Network: “Fed put” is alive and well.

Scott Ladner August 15, 2024

Homebuilders and housing stocks may be a smart first play for the anticipated September cut

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BNN Bloomberg: AI to boost productivity by 20-30%

Scott Ladner August 12, 2024

Slower numbers do not necessarily mean weak numbers. Chief Investment Officer Scott Ladner joins BNN

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CNBC: Inflation has taken a back seat to employment and growth data

Scott Ladner August 12, 2024

The markets have shown remarkable resilience, rebounding from last Monday’s sell-off. But is it time

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Yahoo Finance: Friday’s Market Sell-Off a ‘Technical-Driven Unwind’

Scott Ladner August 2, 2024

The recent market volatility should prompt investors to take a deep breath and evaluate their

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Quarterly Report | The Road Ahead: Three Trends We’re Watching

Scott Ladner July 18, 2024

Overview Overall, stocks delivered another quarter of strong gains during the three-month period ending June

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CNBC: Need rate cuts to broaden the rally, not to keep it going

Scott Ladner July 3, 2024

Will the next round of AI earnings be impressive – or lackluster? Chief Investment Officer

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Schwab Network: Once The Fed Cuts, Will It Continue To Cut?

Scott Ladner June 21, 2024

Would a September rate cut be a political move? Chief Investment Officer Scott Ladner joined

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Fox Business: Tech is where earnings growth is in second half of year

Scott Ladner May 29, 2024

With GDP and inflation slowing, keep in mind our strong starting place. Chief Investment Officer

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CNBC: What is the next-gen AI trade?

Scott Ladner May 24, 2024

Where do you go from yesterday’s Fed-induced sell-off? CIO Scott Ladner joins CNBC Worldwide Exchange

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Fox Business: Generative AI is driving an ‘electrification boom’

Scott Ladner May 21, 2024

Utilities are the top performing sector this quarter. Is this the next AI play? Chief

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Bloomberg: Are we at the doorstep of a small-cap rally?

Scott Ladner May 7, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_2CoH-Ju1o&t=8234s%20 Chief Investment Officer Scott Ladner joins Bloomberg to discuss large vs small business confidence.

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Yahoo! Finance: The new market needs a new catalyst

Scott Ladner May 7, 2024

Is the Fed out of play as a market catalyst at this point? Chief Investment

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Q1 2024 Report | Party Like It’s 1995?

Scott Ladner April 29, 2024

OVERVIEW Stocks during the first quarter of 2024 extended the rally that began late last

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The Fed’s bar to hike is almost impossibly high at this point.

Scott Ladner April 22, 2024

Chief Investment Officer Scott Ladner joins Mornings With Maria on Fox Business to analyze this

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Fox Business: Stop worrying about interest rates. (Unless you’re a small cap.)

Scott Ladner April 19, 2024

Chief Investment Officer Scott Ladner breaks down the chips and the materials and energy sectors

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Q1 2024 Review + Market Outlook Webcast

Scott Ladner April 12, 2024

Chief Investment Officer Scott Ladner and Head of Consulting Solutions Austin Fitch, CFA®, review the

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Fox: There’s some politicization about the Fed in reality

Scott Ladner March 7, 2024

The market has done well in the face of repricing to half of their initial

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CNBC: What’s ahead for the markets in March?

Scott Ladner March 4, 2024

We expect market broadening within the S&P rather than small or mid-caps.  Chief Investment Officer

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Fox: US economy riding on ‘strong tailwind’ of GDP growth

Scott Ladner February 12, 2024

Earnings momentum, disinflation, and a global easing cycle… is the US an attractive place to

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InvestmentNews: Overloading on stocks in retirement often makes sense

Scott Ladner February 7, 2024

Chief Investment Officer Scott Ladner joins Gregg Greenberg with InvestmentNews to share how Horizon’s goals-based

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Bloomberg Radio: Is it Japan’s time to shine?

Scott Ladner January 25, 2024

Until bazooka-style fiscal government spending is announced, we don’t see China as an attractive investment.

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CNBC: Markets will see more gains this year, led by under-hyped tech stocks

Scott Ladner January 23, 2024

A broader tech. trade could be the largest driver in 2024 as the market moves

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Fox Business: You can’t invest in China, ‘the economy’s doomed’

Scott Ladner January 22, 2024

  China would need massive fiscal spending to get out of its balance sheet recession

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BNN Bloomberg: Will AI raise revenue per employee?

Scott Ladner January 22, 2024

We appear to be in a war-recovery-like period, going through an abrupt normalization process, which

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Q4 2023 Quarterly Focus Article

Scott Ladner January 12, 2024

OVERVIEW Following a third-quarter slump, stocks roared back to life during the final three months

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Q4 2023 Review + Market Outlook Webcast

Scott Ladner January 11, 2024

Chief Investment Officer Scott Ladner and Head of Consulting Solutions Austin Fitch review the fourth

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Fox Business: It was not a normal business cycle.

Scott Ladner January 4, 2024

“This Covid cycle that we’ve just been through was not a traditional business cycle. It

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Bloomberg: Scott Ladner on Markets and Strategy

Scott Ladner December 4, 2023

Chief Investment Officer Scott Ladner discusses his outlook for markets and investment strategy. Watch Video

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CNBC: Divergence in stock performance

Scott Ladner November 17, 2023

Chief Investment Officer Scott Ladner joins CNBC to discuss the divergence in stock performance between

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The Claman Countdown: Big Tech and Investing Advice

Scott Ladner November 17, 2023

Chief Investment Officer Scott Ladner joins Fox Business ‘The Claman Countdown’ to provide investing advice.

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CIO Scott Ladner on BNN Powell’s Comments on Rising Rates

Scott Ladner November 14, 2023

Scott Ladner joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the U.S. markets, and Powell’s recent comments on

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Q3 2023 Quarterly Focus Article

Scott Ladner October 25, 2023

OVERVIEW During the third quarter of 2023, investors hit “pause” on the rally that had

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CIO Scott Ladner joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss investing amid high rates.

Scott Ladner October 23, 2023

Bond market must get ‘under control’ before stocks rise again. Chief Investment Officer Scott Ladner

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Q3 2023 Review + Market Outlook Webcast

Scott Ladner October 10, 2023

https://www.horizoninvestments.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Q3-Webcast-Super-TB-Small_1.mp4 Chief Investment Officer Scott Ladner and Managing Director of Consulting Solutions Austin Fitch review

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CNBC: The Bear Case for Consumer Staples

Scott Ladner October 3, 2023

Look Outside of the Stocks that Gained from the Inflation Trade The staples companies were

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BNN Bloomberg: Upside in markets, cyclical commodities, and more

Scott Ladner September 21, 2023

Next-generation investing in AI will take hold in 2024 CIO Scott Ladner joined BNN Bloomberg

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A Possible Peak Soft Landing & A.I. Potential | Schwab Network

Scott Ladner August 25, 2023

CIO Scott Ladner joined Schwab Network to discuss recent employment and inflation data, factors behind

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Fox News | This AI boom is fundamentally important to the economy

Scott Ladner August 16, 2023

Chief Investment Officer Scott Ladner joined Fox News to provide critical tips to investors on ‘Mornings

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No hike but high rates, where do you put the money?

Scott Ladner August 4, 2023

CIO Scott Ladner joined Yahoo! Finance to discuss portfolio positioning and how to prepare for

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TD Ameritrade July 24, 2023 | The Importance of A.I. In Upcoming Earnings

Scott Ladner July 24, 2023

CIO Scott Ladner joined TD Ameritrade to discuss this week’s FOMC meeting and A.I.’s potential

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CNBC July 24, 2023 | CIO Scott Ladner

Scott Ladner July 24, 2023

Chief Investment Officer Scott Ladner joined CNBC to discuss what’s ahead for the busiest week

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Q2 2023 Quarterly Focus Article

Scott Ladner July 17, 2023

OVERVIEW During the second quarter of 2023, several key equity market indices built on their

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Q2 2023 Review + Market Outlook Webcast

Scott Ladner July 14, 2023

https://youtu.be/etvuMLvXBAM Chief Investment Officer Scott Ladner and Managing Director of Consulting Solutions Austin Fitch review

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“The strength of the US labor market is almost unbelievable…”

Scott Ladner July 6, 2023

Horizon Investments chief investment officer Scott Ladner analyzes the market as it enters the second

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CIO Scott Ladner joined TD Ameritrade Network to discuss A.I.

Scott Ladner June 2, 2023

A.I. could be the most important productivity-enhancing development for the global economy since the uptake

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Horizon Investments | Mid-Quarter Update

Scott Ladner May 30, 2023

CIO Scott Ladner, and Managing Director Austin Fitch, CFA® discuss the debt ceiling debate, disinflation,

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Horizon Investments Quarterly Focus: Q1 | Where do we go from here?

Scott Ladner April 27, 2023

Overview The idea that the financial markets “climb a wall of worry” by showing resilience

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Q4 Focus 2022: Navigating The Unknown

Scott Ladner January 30, 2023

Overview Financial markets suffered sizable—in some cases, historic—losses in 2022. Soaring inflation combined with an

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Scott Ladner’s thoughts on the market for 2023

Scott Ladner January 10, 2023

Hear Scott talk about areas of the market to watch in 2023, and his expectations

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Scott Ladner on ‘Mornings with Maria’: Will Headwinds be Tailwinds?

Scott Ladner January 6, 2023

Scott provides insight on the state of the market.

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Scott Ladner on CNBC Worldwide Exchange

Scott Ladner December 29, 2022

Ladner: We think there will be a lot of tailwinds for the markets in the

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