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creases are pretty broadly based. Cycles typically end because of inflation. There has been a little bit of wage pressure recently but commodities prices are still fairly low, and there’s plenty of capacity to make your product.”

That means the traditional engines of inflation aren’t really fired up yet, and even though interest rates appear likely to rise, “they won’t go up in any meaningful way,” he said.

“And at the end of the day, it’s all about earnings and interest rates, and with earnings predicted to be fairly strong and interest rates fairly low, that backdrop provides for a pretty good stock market,” Landaas said. “Having said all that, it’s important to acknowledge that we’re in the latter stages of a cycle. The risks go up at that point in time, and stocks are on the expensive side.”

Collopy said he thinks the market may get off Quad/Graphics Inc. Joy Global Inc. EnSync Inc. Johnson Outdoors Inc. Duluth Holdings Inc. Marcus Corp. Oshkosh Corp. Modine Manufacturing Co. Brady Corp. Douglas Dynamics Inc. Lands' End Inc. Bon-Ton Stores Inc. Strattec Security Corp. Telkonet Inc. Artisan Partners Asset Mgmt Inc. Sonic Foundry Inc. Span-on Inc. Orion Energy Systems Inc. Kohl's Corp. ManpowerGroup Inc. to slow start this year. If Trump’s talk of tax cuts and rolling back regulations comes to be, the market should react positively, he said.

“I think we’ll have sort of a struggle in the early part of this year,” he said.

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