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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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“Buyers and Sellers” LPL Financial Research Weekly Market Commentary by Jeffrey Kleintop, Chief Market Strategist

January 7, 2010
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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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LPL RESEARCH Current Conditions Index Components Reaches New High for 2009 | December 10, 2009

December 10, 2009

Current Conditions Index reaches a new high.

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Weekly Economic Update for the Week of December 7, 2009

December 9, 2009

Joblessness at 10.0%. This November figure is improved from October’s 10.2% mark. Another bright spot: payrolls slimmed by just 11,000 jobs last month.  (Analysts expected a reduction of around 125,000.)  Are we on the verge of  adding jobs to the economy?  The number of employed people rose by 227,000  last month, the first increase since [...]

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