Markets May Hit the Ceiling Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights The markets could face a government shutdown at the end of this week if Congress does not agree to a continuing resolution to extend funding for this fiscal year on or by March 4. During the last government shutdown the Federal [...]
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Meet The New Boss Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights The turmoil and change in leadership in Egypt meant little for most stock, bond, and commodity markets. However, Egypt provided an example of the unrest that can be fueled by rising food prices. What seemed to be a world locked into one [...]
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Geopolitical Risk Returns Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights The riots in Egypt were the catalyst for a stock market that was already vulnerable to give up some gains from overbought conditions and some disappointing corporate earnings reports. While we expect the spillover in the region to be contained, we also expect [...]
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Don’t overreact to stock market’s ups and downs By David Pitt The Associated Press updated 9:22 am PT, Mon., June 7, 2010 Highlights: Understand the market Part of learning to ignore the swings is understanding that some amount of market volatility is normal. The key is to understand that it can be caused by different [...]
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LPL Financial Weekly Market Commentary for April 4, 2011
by Rose Greene, CFP on April 5, 2011
Who Turned Down the Volume? Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA Chief Market Strategist LPL Financial Highlights March saw the lightest month for trading since December 1999 as the trend of declining trading volume that began at the start of 2010 has continued. Those wishing for more volume should be careful what they wish for since a rebound [...]
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