This month I’m featuring an important research White Paper written by Burt White, LPL Financial’s Chief Investment Officer. I call it a “Coffee Cup” read, because you’ll want to settle in with a cup of joe and contemplate his foresight. Below are highlights, and I recommend downloading the full PDF report for your convenience. -Rose [...]
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LPL Financial Research
Over the past week, the LPL Financial Current Conditions Index rose slightly to 236, the highest level in the past year. The stock market has tracked the CCI closely this year as it did last year reflecting the attention investors are paying to real time measures of economic and market conditions as they assess the [...]
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Will a VAT become reality? How about Internet or energy taxes? provided by Los Angeles Financial Planner, Rose Greene, CFP® How do you pay down an $8 trillion debt? The Obama administration needs an answer, as the non-profit Congressional Budget Office says America’s debt could rise to $20 trillion by 2020.1 One possible answer has [...]
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Quote of the week “It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t.”– Martin Van Buren Job growth at last. Employers added 162,000 jobs in March, the biggest gain in three years. While some of the increase reflected temporary hires for the U.S. Census, private payrolls swelled by 123,000 last [...]
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Weekly Economic Update for the Week of April 26, 2010 by Rose Greene CFP®
by Rose Greene, CFP on April 27, 2010
Quote of the week It is wonderful what we can do if we are always doing – George Washington New home sales up … 26.9%? Yes. The stampede was on in March as buyers raced to qualify for expiring tax credits, leading to the greatest month-over-month jump in new home purchases since 1963. According to [...]
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