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Mark Melin
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What comes first, the chicken or the egg? That question might not be as clear as which comes first, a decline in corporate profits or a recession. According to a Source “Uncommon Truths” report, a decline in profits – and a fall in the stock market – most often precedes an economic recession. Despite recent stock market shocks in 2016 stinging and at times along with faltering individual name corporate profits, don't think a recession is on the way, the report says. Its the economy that will trump politics when it comes to stock market returns.

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This economy "still has legs"

Despite flashes of red warning signs, Source thinks the economy is going...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.