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S&P 500 Near Record Highs: Is the Stock Market Rally Sustainable in 2026?

InvestTalk

This is InvestTalk from KPP Financial, helping investors make sense of the markets one day at a time. Here's your host, Justin Klein. Good afternoon, fellow investors, and welcome back to InvestTalk. This is our August 12th, 2026 edition. A lot to talk about as we have the CPI data today that moved markets just a bit.

And overall, just a lot to unpack. A lot to discuss. We have geopolitical volatility. We have earnings that are mostly behind us. We're still getting a smattering of that. We're getting mainly a market rotation. So we'll discuss that and much, much more during this hour. My goal this hour is to help you become a better investor. Give you perspective. Give you data. Answer your finance and investment questions so that you can take that back to your own personal situation and make better decisions.

Not just this week. Not just this month. Not just this year, but year after year after year. That's how you build wealth. Is avoiding major pitfalls. Like chasing returns and using your emotions. Investing in risky, illiquid assets, for example.

There are a lot of pitfalls out there. But those are just a few. But then there's a lot of opportunities. Could be AI, AI adjacent. Every sector has opportunities at any given point. It's your job to identify it. Or if you just want broad-based exposure to an asset class, maybe that's right for you as well. We are here to guide you either way. Whether you want to keep it simple or you want to build a more complex, robust portfolio.

S&P 500 Near Record Highs: Is the Stock Market Rally Sustainable in 2026?

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The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.

S&P 500 Near Record Highs: Is the Stock Market Rally Sustainable in 2026?

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.