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LPL Research’s Outlook 2020: Bringing Markets Into Focus offers investment insights, market guidance, views on the elections, data-based charts, and forecasts for 2020 and beyond.

Ambling Along in 2020 | Weekly Market Commentary | December 9, 2019

U.S. economic growth has slowed in 2019. However, the economy is still growing, and we believe it will continue growing through 2020. As we highlighted in our Outlook 2020: Bringing Markets Into Focus, we’re projecting real GDP growth of 1.75%...

Jobs Report Sparks Rally | Weekly Market Performance | December 6, 2019

U.S. stocks eked out a small weekly gain, based on the S&P 500 Index, thanks to Friday’s rally on the November jobs report.

Technicals Check-In | Weekly Market Commentary | December 2, 2019

Market momentum, global participation, and technical support all provide reasons to think gains may not be over for 2019. While volatility is always possible, record highs need not be be feared, and seasonal tendencies may remain a tailwind.

More Record Highs | Weekly Market Performance | November 29, 2019

U.S. stocks rose for the seventh time in eight weeks as investors took cues from a new batch of optimistic trade headlines.

Have We Hit the Earnings Bottom? | Weekly Market Commentary | November 25, 2019

While earnings declined year over year in the third quarter, results still exceeded expectations. Tariffs, ongoing policy uncertainty, and slower global growth have led to this earnings lull, but we remain optimistic that earnings growth bottomed last quarter and is...

Stocks Take A Pause | Weekly Market Performance | November 22, 2019

U.S. stocks’ rally paused this week as investors processed another batch of trade headlines.

Portfolio Compass | November 20, 2019

LPL Research continues to support a bullish bias toward stocks as we head into year-end due to market momentum, breadth, and seasonality.

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