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What stands out

Thrivent CFO and CIO David Royal calls the current sell-off 'narrow' while walking through why risk is concentrated in a few sectors and assets, and he lays out how inflation, recession fears, and unwind of concentrated bets are combining to raise volatility. The framing matters because a narrow decline is different from a broad market contraction: it suggests winners and losers are diverging rapidly, which changes how you think about rebalancing, cash management, and where liquidity risks might show up next.