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Weekly Market Performance | October 23, 2026
LPL’s Weekly Market Performance for the week of October 19, 2026, highlights AI-driven volatility, the first round of big tech earnings, and bond market gains.
Weekly Market Commentary | Moats vs. Inertia: Unpacking the Personal AI Agent Threat | October 19, 2026
Meta’s September launch of Muse, a personal artificial intelligence (AI) agent designed to act on a user’s behalf across digital workflows, crystallized the market’s latest disruption narrative.
Tactical Asset Allocation Guide | October 2026
The LPL Strategic & Tactical Asset Allocation Committee (STAAC) determines the firm’s investment outlook and asset allocation that helps define LPL Research’s investment models and overall strategic and tactical investment thinking and guidance…
Weekly Market Commentary | Credit Is Still Flowing, and Businesses Are Borrowing | October 12, 2026
Printer Friendly Version Bank lending rarely commands the attention that payrolls, inflation, or consumer spending do. But it helps determine how much momentum the economy can sustain. Commercial and industrial (C&I) loans, the workhorse of corporate finance, pay for everything from working capital to machinery and software. When banks are willing to lend and companies…
Client Letter | October 7, 2026
Markets have always had ups and downs, but there are times when the headlines point more to downs while stocks deliver more ups. This seems to be one of those times as stocks maintain strong 2026 returns…