A look at stocks, commodities and memories (good and bad) Provided by Los Angeles Financial Planner, Rose Greene, CFP® A turbulent ten years. The 2000s gave us remarkable opportunity and remarkable volatility. They tested our patience, and many investment strategies. They taught us to hold on, hang in there and diversify. Stocks. Was it really [...]
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From the monthly archives:
January 2010
Over the past week, the LPL Financial Current Conditions Index rose by 0.2 to 1.6, making a new high for the year. The index reflects current conditions aligned with the high end of our base case outlook and low end of our bull case outlook, established at the end of last year. Consistent with this [...]
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Quote of the week. “Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”– Oprah Winfrey Consumers think positive. The latest index of consumer attitudes from the Conference Board came in at 52.9 last week, surpassing the 52.5 forecast in a Reuters poll of analysts and the 50.6 mark recorded in [...]
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"Buyers and Sellers" LPL Financial Research Weekly Market Commentary by Jeffrey Kleintop, Chief Market Strategist
by Rose Greene, CFP on January 7, 2010
Overall, the buying and selling in the stock market has been balanced over the past month as the S&P 500 has remained in a range of 1090-1125. While there are many factors influencing our outlook for 2010, including the pace of economic and profit growth and the changes in global monetary and fiscal policy, we [...]
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