🎯 Rethink your financial future with the Money Matters Podcast, hosted by Wes Moss and Connor Miller. This episode shares real-world strategies to help you stay focused, informed, and better prepared for retirement—without the jargon.

What you’ll discover in this episode:

• Stay alert to shifting market sentiment tied to central bank leadership and evolving economic policies.

• Watch inflation trends that remain relatively controlled despite modest recent increases.

• Track earnings season highlights from banks, airlines, and semiconductors as corporate profits hold steady.

• Monitor projections of $1 trillion in stock buybacks and $640 billion in dividends, reflecting corporate capital allocation trends.

• Learn how buybacks may influence shareholder yield and earnings per share over time.

• Consider a multi-asset class income investing approach designed to generate income from various asset classes.

• Celebrate a new chapter as producer Mallory welcomes her baby to the Money Matters family.

• Examine near-record-low unemployment and steady wage growth supporting consumer strength.

• Explore accelerating AI adoption and its potential impact on worker productivity.

• Follow continued consumer momentum with rising retail and dining sales.

• Evaluate how recent tax legislation and tariff frameworks might shape long-term fiscal stability.

• Recognize that market volatility could accompany positive returns.

• Note a healthier market with nearly half of stocks outperforming benchmarks.

• Reinforce the value of diversification as bonds resume their role in offsetting equity swings.

• Explore building a total return strategy blending income and growth for added balance.

🎧 Listen now and subscribe to the Money Matters Podcast for practical insights to help support your long-term financial confidence.