The Performance Derby Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights The crowd favorite at the Kentucky Derby this past weekend did not win, surprising many, much like last week’s performance Derby where the crowd favorite, commodities, suffered a stunning loss. While precious metals may have lost during Derby week, they are not ready [...]
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Rose Greene, CFP® and experienced retirement planner, stresses the importance of investing for those with volatile income sources 09.15.2010– SANTA MONICA, CA Through over 26 years of advising clients in the entertainment industry, Rose Greene, Certified Financial Planner™, has identified a growing niche for whom she provides tailored financial advice: those with fluctuating income streams. [...]
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Why the crisis has Wall Street stressed. Provided by Los Angeles Financial Planner, Rose Greene, CFP ® It would be wonderful if the U.S. financial markets could “decouple” themselves from what is going on in Greece, Portugal and Spain. Unfortunately, the debt situation in these countries is like a ripple in a pond. The question [...]
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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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LPL Financial Weekly Market Commentary for August 22, 2011
by Rose Greene, CFP on August 23, 2011
A Recession of Confidence Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights Rather than an economic recession, we seem to be experiencing a confidence recession. In contrast to the pronounced lack of any recession readings in the U.S. economic data last week, the readings on sentiment were uniformly weak as they priced in a [...]
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