What Investors Should Watch This Earnings Season Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights While macroeconomic data and events are likely to remain key drivers of the market this week, microeconomics will also garner investors’ attention as companies begin to release first quarter earnings reports. In each of the past two years, as [...]
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10 Indicators to Watch for Another Spring Slide Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights In each of the past two years the stock market began a slide in the spring that lasted well into the summer months. We have identified 10 indicators to watch closely in the coming weeks that may warn [...]
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Stocks’ Sweet Sixteen Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights It has been a sweet sixteen weeks for the S&P 500. The broad stock market index has had only three down weeks out of the past sixteen, tying a record unbroken for over 20 years. As the NCAA basketball tournament gets down to [...]
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Best Bull Market Ever…Now What? Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights The three-year anniversary of the bull market took place on Friday, March 9. This has been the strongest bull market since WWII. The average return in year four of prior bull markets was 12.9%, close to our 8 – 12%* return [...]
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The Great American Race Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights Today at “The Great American Race,” NASCAR’s Daytona 500, a contestant in another great American race, Rick Santorum, will have his logo on the hood of the number 26 car. Following the “crash” of 2008, the Federal Reserve (Fed) has the yellow [...]
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