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Eric Compton
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Fed Maintains Policy Rate, No Real Surprises During the May Meeting

There were no surprises as the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) voted to maintain its target rate range at 2.25%-2.5% in its third official meeting of 2019. The vote was unanimous. While the last meeting saw the dot plot move in a decidedly dovish direction, the current release and press conference did not represent to us any obvious directional shift. The latest real GDP print of 3.2% for the first quarter of 2019 supports the case that the economy is doing fine, although the release did hi...
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Truist Financial Corporation

BB&T is a financial holding company. Through its bank subsidiary, Branch Banking and Trust Company, the company provides banking services to individuals, businesses and municipalities. The company provides loans and lease financing, including commercial and residential mortgages; permanent commercial real estate financing arrangements; loan servicing for third-party investors; direct consumer finance loans to individuals; credit card lending; automobile financing; and equipment financing. The company also provides other services, including deposits; discount and brokerage, annuities and mutual funds; life insurance, property and casualty insurance, health insurance and commercial general liability insurance.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Eric Compton

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