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 pensions and insiders remain net sellers. Demand from individuals and hedge funds has been mixed. Risks to stocks would be a slowdown in [...]
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Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights The overall stock market has only seen a couple of 2 – 3% dips this year, but there have been 5 – 10% pullbacks among cyclical sectors. It may be time to begin to buy some of the laggard cyclicals, especially on any pullback in the [...]
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Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights After waging a war on debt for the past several years, it may be the war on debt itself that may be bad for growth. A recently detected error in a study by Harvard economists Reinhart & Rogoff has garnered much attention in the financial press [...]
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Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights In recent years, the spring slide in the stock market was driven by the arrival of a spring soft spot in the economy. This soft spot has emerged again — for the fourth year in a row. The bond and commodity markets have already responded negatively. [...]
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Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights Last week, U.S. stocks suffered their worst drop in over nine months as a terrorist attack and poor economic and earnings data shook investor confidence. Breaking down last week’s market drivers may reveal insights about the likely future direction of the stock market. Last week, U.S. [...]
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