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Leading Indicators Steady Some Fragile Nerves
Economic Blog Posted by lplresearch Friday, May 21, 2021 After some shaky economic data releases in recent weeks, most notably the latest employment report, investors had turned their eyes towards Thursday’s Leading Economic Index (LEI) report for confirmation that strong underlying economic trends are still intact. Indeed, investors received the news they were hoping to, as […]
May 21, 2021
The Relationship Between Treasury Yields and Mortgage Rates
Market Blog Posted by lplresearch Tuesday, May 25, 2021 Mortgage rates are still around all-time lows but they may be headed higher. The 30-year national average mortgage rate hit an all-time low of 2.82% back in February, but with the U.S. economic recovery in full swing, mortgage rates have started to move higher. The Bankrate 30-year […]
May 25, 2021
Three Things Investors Can Learn From Phil Mickelson’s Win
Market Blog Posted by lplresearch Wednesday, May 26, 2021 Congrats to Phil Mickelson on his amazing victory on Sunday at the PGA Championship at the age of 50, officially the oldest person to ever win a golf major championship. This was Lefty’s 6th major victory, leaving him just a win at the U.S. Open from completing golf’s […]
May 26, 2021
The Amount of Negative Yielding Debt Is Trending Lower
Market Blog Posted by lplresearch Tuesday, June 1, 2021 The amount of negative yielding debt is shrinking and that’s a good sign that the global economic recovery is well underway. While negative yielding debt became prevalent in many non-U.S. countries after the Global Financial Crisis of 2008/09, the amount had surged to over $18 trillion due […]
June 1, 2021
June Swoon?
Market Blog Posted by lplresearch Wednesday, June 2, 2021 Although there was some notable weakness in the middle of May, the S&P 500 Index was able to rally late in the month to finish with a modest gain. Incredibly, this was the eighth year out of the past nine that stocks gained during in May. Who […]
June 2, 2021
Main Street Sentiment Strongest in Over a Decade
Economic Blog Posted by lplresearch Thursday, June 3, 2021 The U.S. economy is opening up and overall sentiment on Main Street is the strongest it’s been since our earliest analysis in 2005, according to LPL Research’s proprietary Beige Book Barometer (BBB). The result is based on our analysis of the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book, a publication […]
June 3, 2021
May Payrolls Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold
Economic Blog Posted by lplresearch 6/4/2021 Before diving into today’s jobs report for May, it will be a useful exercise to recall the curveball that April’s report threw at investors. One of the more hotly contested topics investors have been debating recently is what to make of the jobs report released one month ago, where the […]
June 4, 2021
Munis Are Expensive but Technicals Remain Favorable
Market Blog Posted by lplresearch Tuesday, June 8, 2021 While many of the taxable markets have generated negative returns this year, both the high quality and high yield municipal markets have generated positive returns (no guarantees that will continue, of course). State and local government finances are in better shape than many feared during COVID-19 shutdowns […]
June 8, 2021
A Closer Look At New Highs
Market Blog Posted by lplresearch Wednesday, June 9, 2021 The S&P 500 Index is flirting with new highs unlike nearly any time in history. In fact, it has now gone nine days in a row closing within 1% of an all-time high without breaking through. “There’s an old saying about not shorting a dull market. Well, […]
June 9, 2021
Supply Chain Bottlenecks Push CPI Higher
Economic Blog Posted by lplresearch Thursday, June 10, 2021 Make that two consecutive months that CPI inflation has surprised meaningfully to the upside. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its May inflation report this morning, June 10, revealing that the headline Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.6% month over month and 5% year over year. […]
June 10, 2021