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- How to Choose a Savings Account – 5 Key Considerationson July 5, 2025 at 2:00 pm
Savings are a crucial foundation of financial success. This article tackles savings accounts and explores key considerations for choosing.
- Why You Should Prioritize Your Emergency Fund Over 401(k) Investmentson July 5, 2025 at 2:00 pm
Building up a few months of expenses in emergency savings before aggressively funding retirement accounts can help prevent you from cannibalizing your future wealth during temporary setbacks.
- Want a Job That Pays Enough for a Comfortable Lifestyle? You'll Have the Best Shot in This U.S. City — and the Worst in 4 Others.on July 5, 2025 at 2:00 pm
How far will your wages go? It all comes down to location.
- 7 Must-Have Money Skills You Weren’t Taught In Schoolon July 5, 2025 at 2:00 pm
School and college prepare you to pass exams. But often, you're left ill-prepared for real life. Here are seven money skills that you need to learn in 2025.
- The Markets Are Balancing on a Knife’s Edgeon July 5, 2025 at 2:00 pm
The world has been anything but peaceful, but you wouldn’t know that from looking at the markets, which have been remarkably indifferent lately. As Jeff Sommer writes in the New York Times, markets are fundamentally amoral and apolitical, to pandemics, elections, civil unrest and just about everything else that may be extraneous to the central purpose of making profits. And corporate profits remain strong, despite everything.
Weekly Market Commentary
Key Themes for Stocks in the Second Half of 2024 | Weekly Market Commentary | July 15, 2024
With the release of the LPL Research Midyear Outlook 2024: Still Waiting for the Turn, in this week’s commentary we pull out key themes from the publication and add some context for our views given stocks have continued to rally — with Thursday a glaring exception as stocks sold off, somewhat surprisingly, after a good consumer inflation report.
Double-Digit Earnings Growth on Tap | Weekly Market Commentary | July 1, 2024
LPL Research believes stocks have gotten a bit over their skis, but earnings season may not be the catalyst for a pullback in the near term given all signs point to another solid earnings season and stocks have mostly performed well during the peak weeks of reporting season in recent years.
Artificial Intelligence: The Antidote To Fed Policy? | Weekly Market Commentary | June 24, 2024
Developments in artificial intelligence may be the antidote for an aging population, but it takes time for these advancements to work themselves into the fabric of our nation’s businesses. The impact of new developments can persist in markets, so investors need to carefully discern what could be different this time around.
Keep Calm And Clip Bond Coupons | Weekly Market Commentary | June 17, 2024
Fed meetings have been important drivers of market performance, especially in the Treasury market.
India At The Crossroads | Weekly Market Commentary | June 10, 2024
Global markets will be monitoring the composition of the new cabinet and the introduction of the budget in July to ascertain that the Modi doctrine remains relevant, pro-business, and above all else, pro-India.