Look Who’s Buying and Selling Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights At the heart of it, all markets come down to buyers and sellers. U.S. stocks are being purchased by foreigners and corporations while notable selling is coming from individuals and insiders, or top executives, of companies. We believe the forces of [...]
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The “Wall Street” Election Poll Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights The biggest event for investors over the next six months is likely to be the November elections in the United States. The outcome of the elections will define the political context and leadership for the policies that address the looming fiscal [...]
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Spring Slide Indicators Update 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. This week we update the status of the 10 indicators we identified that foreshadowed the declines in 2010 and [...]
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Spring Allergies or Something Worse? Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights In April, the markets seem to be suffering from a case of spring allergies. Like pollen-induced sneezes, the spasms at each of the data points have resulted in a noticeable uptick in volatility after a very quiet first quarter. The symptoms [...]
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A Taxing Issue for Investors Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights Perhaps surprisingly, it appears that the tax rate changes have played little or no direct role in stock or bond market performance. The most likely reason is that the effects on after-tax returns were deemed negligible relative to the macroeconomic and [...]
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