Wednesday, April 23, 2025
1:00 PM EDT | 10:00 AM PDT | 6:00 PM BST
The markets have spoken—are you listening? We expect 2025 to continue to be a year of heightened market volatility. With geopolitical uncertainty clouding economic forecasts, how should you position yourself moving forward?
During this session we discussed CFRA’s fundamental outlook for 2025 and 2026 and what Lowry’s technical indicators tell us about what it all means for the remainder of the year.
CFRA Head of Global Research—Wealth Management Paul Beland, CFA, CFRA Chief Investment Strategist Sam Stovall, CFP, and Lowry Research Senior Vice President Michael Kahn, CMT, highlighted key market trends, identified critical indicators and emerging patterns, and provided insights that could influence future market movements.
During this session, we:
- Reviewed CFRA’s Fundamental Market Outlook
- Reviewed Lowry's Current Technical Market Outlook
- Top Sectors, Stocks, and ETFs
- Q&A
Speakers
Paul Beland, CFA
Moderator, Global Head of Research - Wealth Management
Paul Beland, who holds a CFA designation, is currently serving as the Global Head of Research - Wealth Management at CFRA. Before joining CFRA in 2017, he worked as a sell-side equity research analyst for over ten years with Citigroup and Lazard Capital Markets in New York City. During his tenure, he covered various sectors, including Accounting and Valuation, Education Services, and Media. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in Economics with honors and distinction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Additionally, he is a CFA charterholder.
Sam Stovall, CFP
Chief Investment Strategist
Sam is Chief Investment Strategist. Sam Stovall is an analyst, publisher, and communicator of CFRA’s outlooks for the economy, market, and sectors. He is the author of The Seven Rules of Wall Street and The S&P Guide to Sector Investing. He also writes weekly “Sector Watch” and “Investment Policy” reports on CFRA’s MarketScope Advisor platform and maintains the Industry Momentum and Seasonal Rotation portfolios. His work is also found in CFRA’s flagship weekly newsletter The Outlook.
Michael Kahn, CMT
SVP, Sr. Market Analyst
Michael Kahn, CMT, is an SVP, Sr. Market Analyst at Lowry Research, a CFRA business with over 30 years of professional experience as an analyst, writer, educator, and product manager. He is active in the CMT Association as a former member of the Board of Directors, editor of the association newsletter, and chair or member of several committees. Mr. Kahn wrote a twice-weekly column on Technical Analysis for Barron's and regular articles for MarketWatch, Kiplinger, and many others. Mr. Kahn researched and edited his own daily market letter and contributed to a weekly options webinar with Ally Invest. Before that, he was Chief Market Technician at BridgeNews.
