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Client Letter | Perspectives on Market Volatility | August 6, 2024

Stocks must have gotten the memo that August tends to be weak historically. July, the eighth positive month in the past nine, was quickly forgotten

Thoughts on Global Selloff and the Dollar’s Path to Decompressing | Weekly Market Commentary | August 5, 2024

After the sharp August 5 decline, equities are nearing an attractive entry point. LPL’s Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation Committee (STAAC) maintains its tactical neutral stance on equities, while actively monitoring signs of bottoming. LPL Research continues to preach patience before buying this dip. Bottoming is a process.

Key Themes for the Macroeconomic Landscape in the Second Half of 2024 | Weekly Market Commentary | July 29, 2024

Investors had a healthy appetite for risk so far this year as a so-called potential soft landing has been factored in. We have an economy with rising wages, decelerating inflation, and a Federal Reserve (Fed) on the cusp of cutting rates.

Update from LPL Financial – All Systems are Operational and Data is Current

All LPL systems, including Account View, are fully operational, and all data reflected in Account View is current as of Friday’s market close. LPL technology

Key Themes for Bonds in the Second Half of 2024 | Weekly Market Commentary | July 22, 2024

The first half of the year was a challenging environment for a lot of fixed income markets, especially higher-quality markets.

An Update on the Global Technology Outage and LPL Systems Impact

What’s happening? LPL is currently experiencing service disruptions as a result of the global technology outage, and some services are temporarily unavailable, including the online