FINANCIAL BLOG

Investors welcomed the news with renewed risk appetite, bidding the S&P 500 to its 50th record high of the year on Friday.

As Election Day approaches, we discuss potential stock market implications of various possible outcomes.

Stocks have done so well this year that it’s fair to say market participants haven’t feared much.

The bar for third quarter earnings is low, with analysts currently expecting only about a 3% increase in S&P 500 earnings per share (EPS).

On October 12, 2022, there were very few comments suggesting that a new bull market was in the throes of being born as the S&P 500 opened at

The new buzzword — recalibration — implies mechanical fine-tuning, but unfortunately, the macro economy is not that robotic.

When it comes to investing, gold may be the antithesis of artificial intelligence (AI). The precious metal has acted as a store of value for

Of course, last week’s headliner was Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve (Fed) cutting rates by a half percent on Wednesday, September 18,

Second quarter earnings season is in the books, and it was a good one. S&P 500 companies collectively grew earnings at a double-digit pace f

In December 2023, Vladimir Putin declared that the 2024 BRICS Summit, hosted by Russia, would be focused on establishing a “fair world order

In his recent speech, Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairman Jerome Powell focused on the fragilities of the labor market and is preparing markets f

Every year as the summer months draw near their end, LPL Financial hosts its annual Focus conference for financial advisors.

Pullbacks are the stubbed toe of the stock market.

Those of us who lived through the Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual (to sadly only name a few) financial collapses...

Summer is finally here, but 2022 is still shaping up to be one of the worst years for investors ever...

It’s been a very tough start to the year with both stocks and bonds down sharply. Adding to the “wall of worry” for investors...

Several policy-related risks loom in September and October that may lead to an increase in market volatility.

The term stagflation has been circulating increasingly in the financial media as inflation readings have risen sharply in recent months.

Corporate America did it again. Companies blew by estimates and made strategists and analysts look silly.

The highly transmissible Delta variant of COVID-19 now makes up an overwhelming majority of the new cases in the U.S., bringing with it...