FINANCIAL BLOG

t is hard to believe we have passed the halfway point of 2021. After a 2020 that would never end, the first six months of 2021 flew by.

Inflation has been on the rise. Investors are not as interested in what’s happening now as they are in what’s happening next.

As nearly everyone knows by now, inflation has soared the past few months, with the May Consumer Price Index (CPI) coming in at 5.0%...

Fiscal stimulus, which was central to the market rebound in the last year, may start moving to the sidelines over the rest of 2021...

The economic recovery continues, as the recipe of vaccines, the reopening, and record stimulus all have combined to produce what should be..

Here are a few charts that caught our attention recently...

For nearly a year, investors have had the late spring/early summer months circled on their calendars for a potential jump in inflation...

Investors betting on a continued acceleration in U.S. payrolls in April following March’s impressive numbers received an unwelcome...

There is a growing debate over whether an expanding economy, in conjunction with fiscal and monetary stimulus, may cause inflation...

The folks at Goldman Sachs recently announced a 2021 growth target for Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 8% (Q4/Q4).

In almost every direction we turn, we see optimism mounting over a mid-2021 economic reacceleration. Unfortunately...

This week, the Federal Reserve (Fed) meets for their two-day Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting...

The economic recovery is gaining steam. In fact, so much so that the (OECD) had to raise their...

Investors have become increasingly concerned with inflation...

US payrolls grew at a solid clip month over month in February...

Leading economic indicators are providing early signs that we may be exiting a recent soft patch and the economic recovery could be poised..

Economic momentum moderated in the United States in the fourth quarter, with gross domestic product (GDP) expanding at a 4% quarter-over...

In LPL Research Outlook 2021: Powering Forward, we noted that large interest rate declines historically have been followed by reversals.

Investment-grade credit spreads, the extra yield you get from investment-grade corporate bonds compared to similarly dated US Treasuries...

Rising COVID-19 cases and concern about the policy environment put a dent in small business optimism in the month of December...