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Current Conditions Index

LPL Financial Weekly Market Commentary for February 16, 2010

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By Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA
Chief market Strategist
LPL Financial

Events and data in recent weeks have prompted market participants to view the tailwinds that caused the markets to go sailing higher for much of 2009 as beginning to fade. They now view them as having become more balanced with the rising headwinds associated with increasing global frictions.
We [...]

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LPL Financial Current Conditions Index for December 30, 2009

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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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