January May Seem “Super,” but Don’t Be Bowled Over Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights The upcoming Super Bowl will test the stock market’s historical correlations with the calendar and events that proved rewarding to investors in 2011. Investors’ New Year’s resolution may have been to buy stocks after five years of [...]
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What Investors Should be Watching This Earnings Season Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights This week is the start of the fourth quarter 2011 earnings reporting season with big, well-known companies like Alcoa and JPMorgan Chase due to report fourth quarter results. This is the first quarter in over two years that [...]
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Apocalypse Soon Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights The purported end of the world falls exactly one year from this Wednesday, December 21, 2011. Like a primeval Y2K event, 2012-ers believe that one year from now the earth will experience a catastrophe or an enlightenment. Surprisingly, we agree. The year 2012 will [...]
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Black Friday Caps a Dark Week for Investors Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights It was a black Friday for investors as the holiday week closed with the S&P 500 turning in its worst performance during the week of Thanksgiving since 1932. Fear gripped the market that the risk of a default [...]
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Super Committee: Go Big or Go Home? Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights Even with no agreement from the super committee, an end-of-year deal may still take place that may pair a smaller deficit reduction package of a few hundred billion dollars with the extension of the expiring payroll tax cut and [...]
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