With the fourth quarter underway—historically the best quarter for stocks, by the way—2022 is fast approaching. While a lot can still happen between now and the end of 2021, we don’t think it’s too early to start thinking about what stocks might do next year. We see a...
LPL Research is downgrading its 2021 U.S. GDP growth forecast from 6.25–6.75% to 5.75 6.25%.
LPL Research examines two key elements that prompted us to slightly lower our year-end forecast for the 10-year Treasury yield.
Don’t get caught up in the drama: Upcoming risks and strengths.
We see modest gains for stocks over the rest of the year, powered by a strong economic growth outlook and tremendous earnings momentum…
The resiliency of the economy continues to surprise and delight us better than our highest expectations for the year.
LPL Research explores five things that some bears believe that do not worry us.
We remain skeptical that either runaway inflation or low growth are right around the corner, much less both at the same time.
See LPL Research’s latest monthly market outlook in the August 2021 Global Portfolio Strategy.
Corporate America did it again. Companies blew by estimates and made strategists and analysts look silly (though we humbly suggest that we may have looked less silly than most in our earnings preview on July 12). S&P 500 earnings growth did not surprise by quite as...