Summer Roller Coaster Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights Knowing the extent of the highs and lows and when it is going to be over play a crucial role in the summertime fun of riding a metal roller coaster. Riding a market roller coaster offers no such assurances and is no fun [...]
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Earnings Season Preview Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights Investors have high expectations for earnings this year. However, having climbed all the way back to near the prior peak, earnings growth is slowing as businesses have stepped up spending on materials, capital, and labor. For the second quarter of 2011, corporate profits [...]
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The sun is shining on investors as 2010 draws to a close. The economy has shown signs of reaccelerating from the summer soft spot, the stock market has made new two-year highs, as measured by the S&P 500 (returning to the level that preceded the September 2008 failure of Lehman Brothers), and the President signed [...]
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Lame Duck Could Move Markets Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights While the major headlines are out of the way, what happens in Washington during the remainder of the year will still hold influence over the markets. The most important item facing Congress is the looming expiration of the Bush tax cuts. [...]
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LPL Financial Weekly Market Commentary for August 1, 2011
by Rose Greene, CFP on August 2, 2011
Fiscal Fights for the Foreseeable Future Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights While the current deal making in Washington may alleviate the problem of having “run out of debt capacity”, the government will soon “run out of money” if another deal is not reached by the end of next month to avoid [...]
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