July 14th Weekly Market Update After five-and-a-half years of keeping short-term rates in a range of 0 – 0.25%, many market participants believe the Federal Reserve (Fed) is now about 12 months away from hiking interest rates. This may affect markets in the months and...
Week of July 7th Market Update The after-the-bell report from Alcoa on Tuesday of this week kicks off the start of the second quarter earnings reporting season. But much like the iconic and oft-quoted television comedy Seinfeld, which celebrated its 25th...
June 30th Weekly Market Update At this year’s halfway point, we are pleased to offer the LPL Financial Research Mid-Year Outlook 2014: Investor’s Almanac Field Notes key observations and updates to our outlook for 2014. Similar to a farming almanac, our is a...
June 23rd Weekly Market Update About a week into the World Cup the average number of goals scored per match is 2.92, putting the tournament on course to become the highest scoring World Cup since 1970 in Mexico (2.97). The greater number of goals is being blamed in...
June 16th Weekly Market Update The emerging markets (EM) asset class has been especially disappointing for investors in the past few years as measured by the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. However, last week EM pulled ahead of the performance of the S&P 500 Index...
