“Staying up in quality” was a consensus trade coming into 2025. While there was bullishness on Wall Street, the thinking was that elevated interest rates and still-troubled conditions for indebted companies would result in strong-balance-sheet and high-free-cash-flow firms outperforming their lower-qualityFreelance Financial Writer | Investments | Markets | Personal Finance | RetirementI create written content used in various formats including articles, blogs, emails, and social media for financial advisors ...