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While the U.S. Dollar and Treasury yields have moved in the same direction in the past, this pattern has seen a significant divergence since April 2025, affecting the long-standing relationship between these asset classes. What Happened: According to the data, since the “Liberation Day...

A blend of caution and optimism for the upcoming year is evident in LPL Research’s economic and investment outlook for 2024. The team of specialists at LPL Research, featuring chief investment officer Marc Zabicki, chief global strategist Quincy Krosby, and chief economist Jeffrey Roach, has...

Earlier this month, the Labor Department reported an 8.5% increase in the consumer price index in the month of March, the highest U.S. inflation growth since 1981. Investors are growing increasingly concerned about rising inflation, but LPL Research chief market strategist Ryan Detrick said this...

The S&P 500’s bullish momentum in the second half of 2020 has continued in the first half of 2021. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SPY) is up another 13.2% year to date, driven in large part by aggressive stimulus policies out of Washington. Looking ahead, LPL Research Asset Allocation...

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) has generated a 90.6% total return since the market bottomed in March 2020. Economists and analysts are anticipating a major global economic boom in the quarters ahead, yet the S&P 500 has made virtually no progress over the past month. No More Easy...

The S&P 500 has rebounded since the lows seen in March. The Santa Claus Rally that could happen during the last few days of 2020 could help predict the performance of stocks in 2021. What Happened: The Santa Claus Rally is typically defined as the last five trading days of the year and the...

While second-quarter earnings for S&P 500 companies are down 33% year-over-year, 82% of companies reporting have exceeded analyst expectations, the highest percentage in FactSet’s tracking history. Q2 Takeaways: LPL Research analyst Jeffrey Buchbinder recently discussed the blowout second...

The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) has now rallied 37.3% since March 23, but there has been a subtle shift in market leadership in the past couple of weeks. Value stocks have outperformed growth stocks as buying volume has rotated out of the best-performing stocks of the year and into some...

Markets have been on a steady retreat since the start of August, trimming some of the heady gains they witnessed this year. One analyst has broached the possibility of a pullback or a correction, said he's not overly worried in light of solid fundamentals. Keeping Up With Seasonality August...

The financial markets are in doldrums, with the final quarter of the year being particularly unkind for Wall Street participants. A combination of factors, including the ongoing U.S.-China trade imbroglio, are slowing global growth, and the dollar's strength and monetary policy normalization...

Now that the votes have been tallied from the midterm elections, investors are shifting their attention to what the fallout from the midterms will be for the stock market. The early returns on a divided Congress are positive, with the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) trading higher by 2...

After ending the Sept. 20 session at an all-time closing high of 2,930.75, the S&P 500 Index has pulled back by about 7 percent as worries concerning the midterm elections, the Sino-U.S. trade standoff and a rising rate environment push traders to the defensive. But redemption...

The S&P 500 traded lower by more than 10 percent Wednesday morning as investors digest the latest developments in an ongoing Sino-American trade dispute.  Negotiations Sour On Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump expressed skepticism about a potential trade deal with China, tweeting...

The current bull market turned nine years old Friday, and it seems appropriate to take a look back and see how far stocks have come since the S&P 500 hit a Financial Crisis low of 676.53 on March 9, 2009. The S&P itself has more than tripled in value, up about 207 percent in those six years...

Even as Texas reels under the impact of Harvey and the markets mull over the ramification of the catastrophe on the local and national economy, news of soaring gasoline prices, which rose to a two-year high, set alarm bells ringing. RBOB, or reformulated blend stock for oxygenated blending,...