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Midyear Outlook 2025: Pragmatic Optimism, Measured Expectations
We started 2025 on a high note, although we acknowledged that “no market environment is ever permanent, and that change is always potentially around the corner.” Well change did come, and with it, volatility, perhaps in part because we assumed President Trump’s policies would simply mirror those of his prior term. The impact of policy…
Weekly Market Commentary | Oil Prices, China, and U.S. Inflation Risks | July 20, 2026
LPL Research analyzes China’s declining crude imports, inflation risks, and the resilient U.S. economy driving above-trend growth.
Weekly Market Commentary | Keep Calm and Clip Coupons | July 13, 2026
Coming into 2026, we expected inflation to move closer to the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) 2% target, the Fed to cut rates by roughly 75 basis points (bps), and Treasury yields to drift lower.
Weekly Market Commentary | Is the Stock Market’s Rally a Sign of Excess? | June 29, 2026
Has Stock Market Exuberance Become Irrational? Printer Friendly Version A strong quarter across major indexes. The second quarter is winding down and what a quarter it has been with the S&P 500 up 12.6% quarter to date, while the Nasdaq-100 and Russell 2000 are both up over 20%. Despite some twists and turns, the path of…
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CD Rates at All Time Lows
Part of my job is to make your dollars work harder for you. CD rates are at all-time lows and you may have money maturing from older CD’s into new ones with interest rates well below 1% …
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What is the Fed up to?
The Federal Reserve’s (Fed) policy-making arm, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), raised its target for the federal funds rate by 0.25% (25 basis points) yesterday as expected at the conclusion of its two-day meeting. By raising this key overnight borrowing...
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