In an age of analytics, analyst reports are sort of like a baseball player’s slash line. Knowing about stock upgrades and stock downgrades is an essential part of your research, but ultimately, they only tell you so much. That’s particularly true in volatile times such as investors have been living through for the last four years. In 2024, that volatility is centered, in part, around interest rates. The year started out with the market pricing in six or more interest rate cuts. But with inflation beginning ...